Acrylic paint | David Norcross

The FFFn Weekend

September 30, 2015 by dnart

The sky has been stuck in neutral gray and it feels like its been raining for a week, which can only mean one thing. It’s time for the Fall Foliage Festival in Waynesboro, VA. Fingers crossed the weather will have this gloom out of its system by next weekend and we will get clear skies. I really love the FFF and am excited to get my tent out, set up shop and unpack those paintings I had tucked away in […]

Categories: Acrylic on Canvas, Art Shows • Tags: Acrylic paint, Art show, Canvas, David Norcross Art, DNart, Fall Foliage Festival, Virginia

Hound Doggin’ Tennessee Hillbillies

March 17, 2015 by dnart

About three weeks ago I sat down at our dinning room table with a large Elvis book titled Elvis Forever In The Groove. It was fricken cold outside and I didn’t have any paintings on deck waiting to be worked on. So I decided to thumb through this book in the warmth of the inside and maybe sketch out a few of the photographs for fun and also just to keep me sharp. As much as I wanted to sit […]

Categories: Acrylic on Paper, Drawing • Tags: acrylic on paper, Acrylic paint, coffee stains, Elvis, NC art, pop colors, pop portrait

Two Shows and a Class

February 10, 2015 by dnart

I’ve had a great start to 2015. It has been very busy and productive so far, which is causing my weeks to blur together. I can’t believe that it is already mid-February. What have I been up to? Two shows in January and one studio class at NC State (go Wolf Pack) have kept me in the garage, on the inter-webs, and the highway. My first show of the year was Contemporary South, at the Visual Art Exchange in Raleigh. A friend […]

Categories: Acrylic on Canvas, Art Shows, Durham, Raleigh • Tags: Acrylic paint, Art show, bird painting, Carrack Modern Art, David Norcross Art, Durham, NC art, Raleigh, Visual Art Exchange

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Paint by Nature

October 28, 2014 by dnart

I have been traveling a lot lately to Virginia. On our trips, there is a particular stretch of highway that I always look forward to, both for its beauty as well as a reminder of how close we are to being back home. The spot is on 29N, and while I wish I could give a mile marker for reference, my brain tends to work more in pictures and less in numbers. Anyhow, it’s where the Blue Ridge Mountains appear […]

Categories: Acrylic on Wood • Tags: abstract landscape, Acrylic on Wood, Acrylic paint, mountains, Virginia, Wood panels

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Nature Lovers

September 9, 2014 by dnart

I recently finished my latest commission that has been in the works for the past two months. After many hours going back and forth in my head and my studio, it finally came together and I am very excited with where it ended. These clients are actually repeat customers – they are the same ones who commissioned Cosmic Stains. This time around they were looking to go in a different direction. The main objective was to create something funky and abstract, […]

Categories: Acrylic on Wood, Commissions • Tags: abstract, Acrylic on Wood, Acrylic paint, acrylic wash, Commission, Custom artwork, Wood panels

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Sorry Mom and Easy Lucy

August 13, 2014 by dnart

Over the past month I’ve been working on a new commission series, new work for the upcoming art festival in Waynesboro, and these funky portraits. Both of these pieces are on 6×8 oval birch panels and both are loosely based on photographs from the Interwebs, tweaked and stylized to my personal aesthetic. The female is titled Easy Lucy. I was originally drawn to her expression and look of surprise. I used primarily cool colors, except for her hair and eyes, which makes […]

Categories: Acrylic on Wood • Tags: Acrylic on Wood, Acrylic paint, painting from a photo, pop portrait, Wood panels

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Spreading Seeds

April 18, 2014 by dnart

About a month ago, a friend contacted me from Marbles Kids Museum about the Imagination Ball. It’s a fundraiser that helps pay the cost of admission for children who might not otherwise be able to experience all the awesomeness Marbles offers. So of course I was psyched when she asked me to come up with a painting for their auction. Spreading Seeds came to me after a night of sketching. I didn’t really know what I wanted to paint, but I […]

Categories: Acrylic on Canvas, Raleigh • Tags: Acrylic paint, Canvas, Marbles Kids Museum, Raleigh

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What Wood You Say?

February 11, 2014 by dnart

Wood panels have been consuming the majority of my creative impulses at the moment. I can’t get enough! I love every aspect of painting on them. The prep is faster compared to canvas because there is almost no downtime. You just sand and go vs. priming a canvas with gesso and having to wait for it to dry before beginning. I also really like the ability to lean into the artwork without worrying about creating divots in the canvas. For […]

Categories: Acrylic on Wood • Tags: Acrylic on Wood, Acrylic paint, black bear painting, pop colors, wood grain painting, Wood panels

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Wings on These Things

December 3, 2013 by dnart

My pace has definitely slowed down over the last month, but before Thanksgiving, I was able to finish two pieces. Twins and Double Vision are both 14×14 acrylic on birch panels. Both of these paintings feature more of my bird characters. I broke down segments of the bird into flat blocks of bold color and repeated lines and patterns. Then I toned down the color with an acrylic paint wash. In addition to taking the edge off of the color, […]

Categories: Acrylic on Wood, Art Shows, Durham • Tags: Acrylic paint, Art, Bird, Color, Paint, Twins, Umber, Visual Arts

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Tag: Acrylic paint

The FFFn Weekend

Hound Doggin’ Tennessee Hillbillies

Two Shows and a Class

Paint by Nature

Nature Lovers

Sorry Mom and Easy Lucy

Spreading Seeds

What Wood You Say?

Wings on These Things