Don Huber Art

Hello progress #1 Feb, 23

Quick start to the latest in the series for the Cavern Club. 

OCTO'S GARDEN

"OCTOS"S GARDEN"

This is my interpretation of the Beatles Octopus's Garden. I may make a couple of small changes, but this is it for the most part.

  Hope that you enjoy it and I welcome any comments and critique.

This image and all paintings and drawing on this site are copyrighted by Don Huber

new progress Feb 21 Octo's Garden

"Octo's Garden "

This is the progress report for the latest painting and what I completed yesterday.  Hope to make some really good progress today and I'll post again tomorrow.

Finished Painting today, Feb 18

" THE IDIOT ON THE KNOLL"

This is the latest painting just completed and it is my interpretation of the Beatles "Fool On The Hill" It is painting number 3 of 18 that will be displayed at the Cavern Club Winery in downtown Ottawa, Ohio. It measures 24" x 48" and is acrylic on canvas. Hope that you like it!

The Fool, painting progress Friday Feb 17

 Todays adventure into Beatle song interpretations takes me to the "Fool on the Hill"

The top photo is what I done last night and the bottom shows todays progress so far at 1:00 PM.We have a ways to go and I 've had difficulty with the face, but here you go. Hope that you don't mind seeing these posts as I work through the 18 songs that I need to interpret?

Have a good day and now back to the brush.

Sardine Bug in my Supper

I just found this bug in a can of sardines that I had opened for supper!

My dear wife had just left to get her haircut by her good friend Deb Barney and she asked as she was going out the door what I would eat for supper. I replied, "Don't worry dear, I'll eat something good, you just go ahead and get your hair snipped a little". I get out the french fryer and warm it up, stand by the counter with a frozen bag of french fries and say to myself, "damn Don you should probably eat a little more than just this bag of fries". I go into our pantry look at the shelves and WHOA! I see a few cans of sardines. We have sardines in mustard, some in oil, some in hot sauce and a can of sardines in tomato sauce. Whala! I choose the tomato sauce because it is a brand I've never had before and I love to try new things. It's a can from Thailand and I open it up, poor it in a bowl and marvel at the small size of the sardines and all the oil that is on them. While my fries are a fryin', I sit down in my favorite chair and eat all the sardines, walk back into the kitchen cleaning the bowl out as to not waste any of the foreign morsels. Crunch and crunch again, well that's just not right, thinking it was a sardine bone I reach into my mouth, which is quite large and pull the crunchy thing from off of my tongue. I look at it and realize, this is not a bone, you see I went to Hamler school and I know these things instead it is a 1/2 " foreign water beetle. YES! it was in the polluted asian waters, in the non inspected packing plant, in the can of sardines and by gum it was in my mouth. I'd like to say, "Well Andrew Zimmer would eat this, but in the back of my mind I think of an episode where he may get deathly sick from a small insect while pigging out in southeast asia. The taste in my mouth, which I'll ask my wife about later is sort of sour, so I go the fridge grab a plastic container of sour cream and dill dip and start spooning it into my mouth.  It does seem to help somewhat and my fries are now done so I put the fries on a plate, spoon some more dip on top of them and eat um' up. I realize I'm still a little hungry so I go back into the kitchen, see the little asin sardine bug and well ... I eat it.  We have an art guild meeting in a couple of minutes, but I'm a liitle dizzy and the muscles of my stomach are contracting ... gosh could I be breeding little sardine bugs that will take over Ottawa next week?

My Latest Painting

"STRAWBERRY MEADOWS"

Finished the painting this morning as I needed to make just a couple of changes from my last post. So many times when I've completed a painting and set it back for a couple of hours and I see so many mistakes. I still see a few things that may need to be changed but sometimes you just have to say enough. So many of my paintings end up being to tight and I'm really trying to loosen up some. Anyway I'm beginning to ramble a bit ...

Again as always, I love to hear your feedback ...

"STRAWBERRY MEADOWS"

"STRAWBERRY MEADOWS"

It's about 90% complete at this point, I just need to add some additional details and finish the sides of the canvas. It is an acrylic painting on a 24" x 48" streched canvas. 

The painting is my interpretation of the Beatle's song "Strawberry Fields Forever". 

It will be on display at The Cavern Club Winery in Ottawa, Ohio by April 1st. The winery is open now Thursday-Saturday from 6:00 - 10:00.

Strawberry update Feb 13

Here is the update of the painting from yesterday. Hope to get a good 10 hrs in today so tomorrows update should show some good progress. The size of this painting is 24" x 48".

New painting start Feb 12

 

  Just started a new painting that I must have complete by Thursday of this week. It is based on the Beatles "Strawberry Fields Forever" and for now I believe that I will title it "Evermore Meadow of Berries" or "Evermore Berry Meadow" or "Hand me the red juicy fruit from that field today, tomorrow and for gods sake everyday after".

"Blackbirds Evening Hymn"

"BLACKBIRDS EVENING HYMN"

This is a photo of the finished painting of my interpretation of the Beatles song "Blackbird". The song says " Take these broken wings and learn to fly and take these sunken eyes and learn to see because all your life you were only waiting for this moment to be free"/ you were only waiting for this moment to arise.

I've interpreted those words as a person who has had trouble and pain in their life and now that person,  represented as a lady has discovered the answer and lets her spirit fly and become free.

This painting will be hanging in The Cavern Club Winery, in Ottawa along with my interpretation of eight other Beatle songs by April.  

You don't have to wait until April however to visit the winery. They are open now and they have an art gallery, entertainment and plenty of Karens wine, along with some chosen bottled beer.

Painting update #3 BLACKBIRD

  This is the latest update from my work yesterday. Spent most of yesterday working on this and retired to the house at 10:30. I hope to have this completed by the end of the day.  The title is "Blackbird" and it is my interepretation of the Beatles song. This is the first of 18 canvases for the Cavern Club Winery in Ottawa, Ohio. 

Painting update#2

This mornings painting progress report #2

I have to stretch a couple of giclees' this morning and then I can get back to the paints and palette.

PAINTING AGAIN

 

    It has been a couple of months, but I'm back to painting and loving it. Working on a series of paintings for a canvas mural for the new Cavern Club winery in Ottawa, Ohio. I'll continue to update the progress as the project comes together.

My interview with Kuan Tru

Use this link to see the interview

http://www.khuantru.com/2012/02/intervi … don-huber/

  Last autumn an artist from the UK requested an interview with me and I was quite excited about the opportunity to share my art with a wider worldwide audience. I finished the interview in January and received notice this afternoon that the interview is up and online.  I would appreciate any comments about the interview, website and I thank you for taking the time.

  There are many different styles of art and it is always good to see these artworks, learn about the artists and read their interviews.

 The interview was conducted by vector artist Kuan Tru and he has intereviewed many artists, photogs and models from around the world.  I encourage you to visit his other interviews, facebook and fansites.

http://www.facebook.com/khuan.tru

http://www.facebook.com/pages/khuantruc … mp;sk=wall

http://www.facebook.com/pages/ART-Inspi … 4077568690

Thank you Kuan Tru, as it has been a pleasure working with you on this exciting project!