About Dinner Guest:
Completed: August 2025
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Finishing Products Used: Golden Isolation Coat + ~8 thin coats of Golden MSA Gloss varnish w/UVLS
Measurements (frame + painting): 23 x 19 inches / 58.42 x 48.26 centimeters
Frame notes: Red Oak base / High-gloss polyurethane finish / Wire hanger on back / Shiny brass oxidized info plate
Price: Not presently for sale
Keeping with my theme of painting frightening creatures, it was only a matter of time before I painted the feisty, ill-mannered antagonist of Creature from the Black Lagoon. I just dig his vibe – or maybe dive it? (Sorry.) I wanted to create what is essentially the kind of painting you’d see at your grandfather’s house near his bourbon, but with an extra fishy friend. To that end, the lighthouse and red oak frame does a lot of the heavy lifting. I also wanted to explore water/spotlight interplay at night, patterns in waves, and the murky, muddy, purple and teal transitions between water and land at night.
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