thanks... I'm always so reluctant to post anything unfinished here, because it takes me forever to get it right, and it's really not pleasant unless I do... but this is more of a "feeling thing" for me than a "get it right thing". I love empty chairs, but I really like these chairs the best when my Daddy and Uncle and brothers are sitting in them and standing around them and telling stories... I miss my "Pa"... he used to be there, too, but he isn't anymore. What I thought of when I took the photo of the empty chairs. You are more than welcome to come down here any time, there's a chair for you, too. :)

aww that sounds so niice... you must have a thing for empty chairs like I have a thing for doors and windows.. (and I like to see your unfinished work, it's already got a finished look but I know you like to go the whole nine yards.

I'm finding it's harder and harder for me to want to paint here... It's like I "max out" at something and then I become bored with it... I do that with everything. I go looking for the next thing. I love some of the people here, and I love to paint, so I'm "holding on". :) I don't care if this one goes the whole nine yards, I like looking at the photograph, and this is a good excuse to do that.

I'm not even gonna bitch about sharp ..that's how much I like this one, for the feeling it evokes....

hah... It'll be a little sharper... when, and if, I ever finish it, you bitchy old man. :) Thanks, Dave. I'm still not gonna call you "Poppa", ever :D.

I'm really liking this picture. The colors are great. very warm and cozy feeling in this one. :}

You're such a sweetheart to say that... thanks, Mike. :)

Thanks for "no poppa".. and I'm not bitchy.. I'm curmudgeonly!

haha... I'm not...(I can't run... I have a broken foot and ankle, remember?) I'm going (hobble, hop..hobble) back and forth. I just went back outside... it's hailing really heavily.. weird hail...some of it's little bitty and some is kinda big and it's blowing in all different directions. brb :D

Oh, and if I could run... where would I run to? lol

oh yes, that's right, the ankle..... I have lots on my mind :/
I don't know where you'd run to.. the basement? in circles? I'd be all freaked out.

I guess it got lost, it didn't find my house. We have tons of them this time of year. We don't have a basement. I live on almost solid rock (there's like 6 inches of dirt is all)... it's part of the bluff that goes around the lake. A few people around here have storm cellars, I don't... I wouldn't get in it, anyway. With my luck, something'd probably fall on top of the door and I'd be trapped in there forever. :D

just beautiful, and so comfy looking

The light you put in this is my favorite part of the picture

Thanks... it's actually like this in the photograph. After submitting I looked at it and I think I overdid it... I would have taken a bit of it out except that I had already merged the layers.

Well.. I like it how you did it..

mm take the interest off the undetailed picture with light rays. Interesting approach.

Nice sunrays, I like this.

hideyourface: It was not an "approach" to withdraw attention from the lack of detail in the painting. I did not put an inordinate amount of detail into the picture as I fully intended to add the light rays before finishing. As I said, it appears like that in the photo, and is simply my interpretation of what the camera saw.

I think it worked well.

I'm glad you think so, thank you. It isn't the best photograph in the world, nor the best painting, but I LIKE IT ANYWAY. :D

If you were to do anything else to it, I would make a new layer on top, fill it with a light grey and then decrease the opacity of the grey until it were a very light haze over the whole thing and then on the lightest of light areas of the painting I would fade the grey haze that is left with the eraser tool set on a very low opacity setting just because the photo has that slight grey haze look over it.

That sounds like a wonderful idea, but I "weren't gonna" do anything else. I KNOW!!! Why don't I shine the sun right in our eyes and just cover the whole thing up with a huge yellow glare and we can all squint and stumble around and look for our sunglasses and stuff.

I know, why don't I just like it the way it is.

edit: if this doesn't read the way I meant it to sound it is supposed to sound like this, "I know! Why don't I just like it the way it is?!!" like, by jove....that's the best idea I've heard all day. (i.e. instead of bitching about oh this oh o that...it's just plain freakin fine and good that way it be.

I wanna whisper "Taste the rainbow" _skiddles

It's perfect the way it is, seriously some people can't be satisfied and have to find fault in everything. You dun gud sweeting.

the title makes me think of the song "empty chairs at empty tables' from Les Mis. *sniff* anyway awesome picture here!

the background in the original pic isn't blurry like yours, its just lighter :p

Yes, thank you for that my dear Conor. (I used the blur tool on it, I'm happy to know it worked) It's so nice to have a loyal "following" by someone such as yourself. lol :)

You have another loyal 'following' DBA! I make sure I check your gallery nearly every day! I agree wholeheartedly with (most) everyone on here. This is a lovely painting just the way it is.

I like it, and what is the fun in drawing something exactly like the photo? That is why we have camera's and there is art... :-D

Thats looks Very awsome. Cin

I like the flash of light.

I love what you did with the light. The picture looks very spiritual.