So what does an old man do with his time after retirement? Our Winters in Mexico leave me with extra time. There is only so much time that can be spent eating fresh shrimp and listening to great live music. I needed a hobby to fill my days in the sun.
I joined the "Women's Painting Group" as their token male. They are a fun group of ladies. After a few years they ignore me and will talk about anything with me just sitting there quietly. Sometimes following an interesting subject one of them will turn to me and give me a simple apology for the discussion that just happened. I smile and nod my head and go back to painting.
Who would have thought I could paint? Not bad for an old man.
Proof that I haven't been totally lazy. 16x20 oil painting.
One of six dancers that I painted this Winter. A few were donated to charity auctions.
RonC said
01:01 PM Oct 5, 2018
Much better than I could do.😎
Rickl said
01:41 PM Oct 5, 2018
Outstanding! Heck, I can’t get past doing a stick man and even that’s questionable.
-- Edited by Rickl on Friday 5th of October 2018 06:40:51 PM
Someday said
02:09 PM Oct 5, 2018
Holy, you are truly talented :)
jjm219 said
04:55 PM Oct 5, 2018
Wow, absolutely beautiful!!!
Barb and Frank said
07:03 PM Oct 5, 2018
Stunning...
jrzygrl64 said
06:30 PM Oct 6, 2018
Very nice! If I had a house I’d buy one!
Terry and Jo said
09:59 PM Oct 6, 2018
Good job, Russ.
I grew up at the knees of a woman that taught herself to paint with oil paint. She started out just doing it for fun and to kill time as she raised me. After a while, others saw her paintings and she started bartering with them with her paintings. Many years later, after she and Dad divorced, she started teaching painting. While I don't have the talent to paint, what I did learn from her, unknowingly at the time, was how to compose with my photography.
Fortunately, I've got a fair idea of what looks good, and long ago, I stated that everyone could be an art critic. If one saw a piece of art that they liked and would put in their home, then they were a critic.
I think a lot of critics here will say that you did good.
Terry
arcaguy said
08:59 PM Oct 7, 2018
Ya know you could have taken up fishing, the result wouldn't have looked as good. Nice work!
PrairieRV said
07:28 AM Oct 8, 2018
Those are beautiful! The only problem with painting is having a place to display them in your RV!
MAYBE2021 said
10:22 AM Oct 9, 2018
When I saw the heading “what an old man does to fill his spare time” I thought maybe there’s something I can do. Image my disappointment when I saw what Russ had done. Really nice work!
Danny and Cheryl said
07:54 AM Oct 10, 2018
Great work, But when I retired I made myself a Promise that I wasn't going to do anything. Why retire if you are going to continue working. and that is what I do, Nothing
Russ Ranger said
07:57 PM Oct 15, 2018
I would like to thank you all for the kind comments on my paintings. It's fun to discover new talents in retirement.
Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is coming up soon. I get to paint us up for this fun celebration in Mazatlan.
Never looked better than being dead in October.
Life is good.
arcaguy said
08:03 PM Oct 15, 2018
Looks like you two are having way too much fun for it to be legal!
So what does an old man do with his time after retirement? Our Winters in Mexico leave me with extra time. There is only so much time that can be spent eating fresh shrimp and listening to great live music. I needed a hobby to fill my days in the sun.
I joined the "Women's Painting Group" as their token male. They are a fun group of ladies. After a few years they ignore me and will talk about anything with me just sitting there quietly. Sometimes following an interesting subject one of them will turn to me and give me a simple apology for the discussion that just happened. I smile and nod my head and go back to painting.
Who would have thought I could paint? Not bad for an old man.
16x20 oil painting.
A few were donated to charity auctions.
Outstanding! Heck, I can’t get past doing a stick man and even that’s questionable.
-- Edited by Rickl on Friday 5th of October 2018 06:40:51 PM
Stunning...
Good job, Russ.
I grew up at the knees of a woman that taught herself to paint with oil paint. She started out just doing it for fun and to kill time as she raised me. After a while, others saw her paintings and she started bartering with them with her paintings. Many years later, after she and Dad divorced, she started teaching painting. While I don't have the talent to paint, what I did learn from her, unknowingly at the time, was how to compose with my photography.
Fortunately, I've got a fair idea of what looks good, and long ago, I stated that everyone could be an art critic. If one saw a piece of art that they liked and would put in their home, then they were a critic.
I think a lot of critics here will say that you did good.
Terry
When I saw the heading “what an old man does to fill his spare time” I thought maybe there’s something I can do. Image my disappointment when I saw what Russ had done.
Really nice work!
I would like to thank you all for the kind comments on my paintings. It's fun to discover new talents in retirement.
Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is coming up soon. I get to paint us up for this fun celebration in Mazatlan.
Life is good.