Self Portrait Torn Paper Collage

My torn paper collage is finally finished.  A self portrait with this technique is not easy.  It takes many hours to finish, but so much fun.  Thanks Nancy Standlee for the workshop.  You are correct when you said we would never again look at a magazine in the same way.

Untitled For Now

Painting framed and ready to hang.  As you can tell by the double signatures, I originally planned this painting to hang vertically.  It can hang either way, however, I decided I prefer it horizontally for now at least.

What are your thoughts?

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Hard Candy Christmas

I decided this painting reminds me of Christmas and needs a Christmas name.  Thus
"Hard Candy Christmas".

Gotta Love These Colors

Gotta love these colors.

This mixed media texture was created with a mixture of gel and spackling paste. It is 10 x 20 on board.

I will be matting and framing this today. Framed size 16 x 26.

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This self portrait is a work in progress.  Lots of tweaking to do, it is time consuming, a real challenge, but once I start I can't stop doing it or thinking about it.  I started this in Nancy Standlee's Granbury workshop, but with Dr. appointments, Christmas, oh, where does the time go.  It is super fun to do and I won't stop until it looks better.  Quite satisfied, however, with the progress I have made the last two days.

I will be working more on the eyes, on the glass lenses (can't quite decide if I will leave the watches as part of the lenses), and then I will add to the background things that identify me, for example, cars, watches, art and other personal items.

This 8 x 10 x 1.5 canvas painted in Big Thompson Canyon in Colorado, August, 2011, has been sold to a Texas art collector.  It currently is on exhibit in the Wide Spectrum art show in the Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas.  It is titled:  Big Thompson Canyon.

This mixed media painting uses Tyvek, gels, acrylics, and epoxy.

Of the several paintings I have in the Wide Spectrum Show and Sale at the Arlington Museum of art, I think these two paintings were the best received.  The first one is Oceanic Adventure and the other is Rocky Top.  The show will continue through December.

Burger Bar and Burger Bar Alley

Burger Bar and Burger Bar Alley is a mixed media painting.  The Burger Bar is a Cleburne, Texas historic landmard known for having excellent burgers.  This painting includes the Burger Bar and other buildings located in the alley by the Burger Bar.
The original is available as well as acrylic painting on prints.

Prints are also available at:
http://fineartamerica.com/products/burger-bar-and-burger-bar-alley-james-haddock-canvas-print.html

A Larger Canvas

This acrylic mixed media painting is 16 x 40 on gallery wrapped canvas.  It  includes cedar chips, pebbles, tyvek, and textured gels.  The finish is self leveling gel.

A New Canvas

A new acrylic painting, 11 x 14 gallery wrapped canvas.  The final finish is Epoxy.

Demo at Mid Cities Fine Art Group in Hurst Texas

I had a very fun time doing the demo with the Mid Cities Fine Art Group on Wednesday, November 9, in Hurst, Texas.  Loved it!  The artists are super nice, friendly, and certainly a well organized group. 

Artists Share Their Work In Their Daily Activities

Tahlequah high schools class of 1951 (Central High School and Bagley High Schools) had their 60^th reunion on October 7 and 8, 2011.

What a fun time at the football game on Friday night and lunch at the Restaurant of the Cherokees on Saturday.

Pauline Green and Jerry Darter pulled this event together and all of us shared, reminisced, laughed, and marveled at the things our class members have accomplished.

Pauline copied photos from the 1951 annual which were used as name tags.  This was so helpful in remembering how we looked in 1951.

I learned that I have other class members that have migrated to Texas.  One family in Tolar and Larry
Combs in Dallas.

I was fortunate to be able to share these art pieces with my fellow 1951 graduates.

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Rocky Top found a New Home

This little gem ROCKY TOP found a new home.  Thanks art patron Kathy.

Big Thompson River Loveland Colorado

This painting was also completed during our stay in Big Thompson Canyon.  One of my favorite things to do while at 2 Eagles Resort was to sit in the chair and relax by this Big Thompson River.  The sound of the river is a relaxing way to fall asleep.  Colin (the owner) encountered a bear our first night there and we were so tired we missed all the action.

Our cabin was located by the Big Thompson River which gives a continuous relaxing sound.   Check out 2 Eagles Resort:  http://www.2eaglesresort.com/index.html   See the picture of the cabins with picnic tables and you will see the view where I did this painting.

Big Thompson Canyon Loveland Colorado

This is one of my paintings completed during the two weeks I spent in Big Thompson Canyon between Estes Park and Loveland Colorado.  Big Thompson Canyon will take your breath away, and to be there in August of 2011 instead of  theTexas heat wave was so very special.  Of course this painting is titled:  Big Thompson Canyon.

Our cabin was located by the Big Thompson River which gives a continuous relaxing sound.  It is called 2 Eagles Resort.  Check it out:  http://www.2eaglesresort.com/index.html   See the picture of the cabins with picnic tables and you will see the view where I did this painting.

The owners are Linda and Colin Napier and they are delightful.  Their guests become part of the family.  Now don't all of you schedule for August 2012 because I want to return.

A print of this award winning painting can be purchased for as low as $11.50.  See at the flollowing website.


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A Busy Saturday in Granbury

Will be a fun time in Granbury this Saturday.  Visit Your Private Collections Gallery on the square and see this painting "Heavens Bling" by James Haddock.  Next watch artists paint in the shops, and visit the Shanley House Gallery, 224 North Travis, and view the Fall Festival of Art Juried Show and Sale.  "Tech World", a painting by James Haddock will be include in the Juried Show.

Painting selected for the 2011 Fall Festival of Art Juried Show and Sale in Granbury



"Tech World" has been selected for the 2011 Fall Festival of Art Juried Show and Sale.  There will be a sneak preview of the show during the Last Saturday Gallery Night in Granbury on September 24.  The show will be at the Shanley House Gallery which will be open through 9 p.m that night.

The show officially opens on Saturday, October 1, with a reception and awards ceremony beginning at 6:30 p.m.  The show will be open during regular Shanley House Gallery hours through October 29.

Tech World is an acrylic experimental art piece, and matted in an 11" x 15" frame.

This painting may be purchased.

James Haddock Paintings

This bold color acrylic painting is on gallery wrap canvas, and is 16 x 16 x 1.5.

The textures are Golden crackle paste, Golden textured mediums, foils, and card board.  A sink stopper, which was retrieved from the trash, is a big assist in creating the textures with the mediums.

I like to use recycled materials in my paintings.  Recycled materials used in this painting are the card board, foil, and some of the color foil was lifted off a bottle of Negra Modelo beer.  Viva Mexico.

James Haddock Paintings

A recently finished acrylic on canvas.  Size 16 x 20 x 1.5.  Created with tyvek, gels, and acrylic. 

James Haddock Paintings

This colorful abstract was created with acrylic, crackle paste, and tyvek.  It is a larger size canvas for the gallery.  It is 16 x 20 x 1.5. 

James Haddock Paintings

See this mixed media painting at Your Private Collections Art Gallery in Granbury, Texas, http://www.yourprivatecollection.com/

16 x 20 x 1.5 canvas

James Haddock Paintings

Creating art makes for an exciting life.  I stay up until 12 a.m. painting, and many times my first thoughts in the mornings are, "Oh great, another day I get to paint".  I only wish I could have discovered this earlier in life.  Actually, My finances probably would not have permitted.


I have decided this piece is finished.  You saw it while it was in process.  Now I need to name it.

Suggestions please!

It is 16 x 20 x 1.5, cool blues, tyvek, and crackle paste.  Oh, the wonders of tyvek.  The final coating is self leveling gel instead of epoxy.

Turned out nice,  but probably not as clear as epoxy, and it is difficult to show the differences in photo.

This is a piece in process.  It is similar to my smaller piece already posted.  I wanted a larger
one.  This is 16 x 20 x 1.5.










Another piece in process.  A collage  showing places of interest in my town of Cleburne, Texas. 
Now the fun part can begin--the painting.

Another piece in process.  A collage and again with some interesting

places from my photographs of Cleburne, Texas.

James Haddock Paintings

The mixed media painting on the left includes foils, tyvek, crackle paste, acrylic medium, and acrylic paints.

8 x 10 x 1.5 on canvas

I am experimenting with photographing these paintings with epoxy coating. I think this is a better image than my previous post.

James Haddock Paintings

Burlap, foil, and crackle paste.

Horizontal hanging.

The same painting hanging vertically.

Tell me your choice. Which way would you hang it?

James Haddock Paintings

This spring/summer I attended a workshop with Bob Burridge of California and Carol
Nelson of Colorado.

These new paintings incorporate some new techniques that I learned in these workshops.

This mixed media painting on the left incorporates tyvek, cedar chips, pebbles, acrylic medium, and acrylic paint.

The pear below includes magazine papers and acrylic paint.


The mixed media painting on the left includes foils, tyvek, crackle paste, acrylic medium, and acrylic paints.

8 x 10 x 1.5 on canvas.











Acrylic paint chips, acrylic paint, and acrylic medium.

24 x24 x 1.5 on canvas

This mixed media painting includes cardboard, foils, crackle paste, acrylic medium, and acrylic paints.