#158 thru #164 Crazy Little Magnet Paintings 8/3/19

I have had another setback, no painting for a full week!  What the heck?!  Life just got busy and I couldn't get myself started on anything.  So Saturday came, I had a good day at the Farmer's Market (sold 4 paintings, woohoo!), so when I got home and finished lunch I got right to work with new enthusiasm.  I at least had prepped a bunch of tiny canvases last week....little 2x2 inch canvases that I put magnets on the back side.  I wanted to do some blue crabs.....I've seen paintings of blue crabs on Pinterest, loved them and thought, I live in the blue crab capital of the world (Maryland) so I definitely have to get on this train!  I free-handed the drawings (I know, I know, finally).  They aren't as cute as I had intended, and the style is a bit messy, but overall I like them.  I have plans to paint more blue crabs on larger wrapped canvases later this week.  I should be able to translate them better with more space (hopefully).

Next, I had in mind this wacky idea to paint something I saw on a t-shirt: ,,,, (pic of a chameleon).  The intent is to get the viewer to state "comma, comma, comma, comma, comma, chameleon" and a bit later say, "oh, like the song!"  I painted the chameleon, liked him, and added the comma's above him, hated that, thought about it a while and finally erased the comma's.  He just a chameleon now, no clever song-play.  He looks a bit pissed about it.

But I had another, original song-esque play-on-pictures that I kept.  It is a series of 4 magnets.  See if you can guess the song.  I won't reveal the answer till the end of the post.

The limes and the coconuts were easy to paint, as I have painted lots of still-life fruits and veggies by this point.  The drink ended up looking like a glass of milk, which it wasn't (even with a lime slice on the side).  I decided the only way to make it look like a cocktail was to add an umbrella.  Most intimidating was the doctor, but he came out OK.  I played with different hairstyles...and tried to fix his eyes several times (he looks like he's wearing mascara), but overall with only 1 human to my portfolio, I'm calling the doctor acceptable.

Naturally these 4 will have to be sold together as a set.  Harry Nilsson wrote the song "Coconut"  which is perhaps better known as "Put the Lime in the Coconut".  His heirs may want this magnet set.  If so, give me a shout.  The song is impossible to get out of your head once you start humming it!