The Day's Work - Paintings of C. Litka

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Blog Update

I thought that I'd make a brief post here, since it's been several years now since I last posted anything. The thing is that I've fallen out of love with painting, for some reason. I relied on my imagination to come up with things to paint, and that well has run dry. There are a zillion things to paint, but I can't think of anything I want to paint. I guess I've said all I needed to say in nearly 2,000 paintings. The only thing I paint now (and very reluctantly) are the covers for my books, which is my current creative outlet. (We'll see how long that lasts.)

If you are interested in what I write, you can find my work on all the usual suspects for ebooks -- Amazon, Apple, Google Play, Smashwords, B & N, and Kobo under "C. Litka" Or visit my other blog here: My Book Blog

Here then are the last paintings that I still have not posted:

18x24" acrylic on watercolor paper

18x12" acrylic on watercolor canvas

approx. 18x18" acrylic on watercolor paper

18x12" acrylic on watercolor paper

Sunday, March 31, 2019

March 2019 Paintings

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard Sunlit Fields

12x24" 30x60 cm acrylic on hardboard Misty Morning Street

12x24" 30x60 cm acrylic on hardboard Rainy Day Scene

12x24" 30x60cm acrylic on hardboard Another Misty Morning

12x24" 30x60cm acrylic on hardboard Crabapple Blossoms

Cover for my 2019 Novel, Sailing to Redoubt

The ebook version of Sailing to Redoubt is available for free, except on Amazon stores outside of the US where it is $.99 in local currency. It can download from these fine ebook stores:

Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/928728

B & N https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1130934551?ean=2940156016303

Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/sailing-to-redoubt

Google Books https://play.google.com/store/books/details/C_Litka_Sailing_to_Redoubt?id=vRyNDwAAQBAJ&hl=en

Apple Books https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/sailing-to-redoubt/id1456399494?mt=11

Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PMXXB2P/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0

The trade paperback version is $12 and is available from the Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other fine book store web sites.

Saturday, March 2, 2019

February 2019 Paintings

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard Sunset on Lil Lon

18x24" 45x60 cm acrylic on hardboard Reed Bank Street

18x24" 45x60 cm acrylic on hardboard Spring Once Again

Thursday, January 10, 2019

New Paintings Mid Jan 2019

12x24" 30x60cm acrylic on Hardboard Abbey Rd 2

12x24" 30x60cm acrylic on Hardboard Afternoon in Grove Square

12x24" 30x60cm acrylic on hardboard Field & Forest

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard FeyLon Anchorage

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard Tropic Island Sunset

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard Sunset, Fey Lon Harbor

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on harboard The Sea From Seaview House

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard Sunset on Lil Lon

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

New Paintings Oct - Early Nov 2018

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard Forest Road

18x24" 45x60m acrylic on hardboard Another Morning

12x18" 30x45cm acrylic on hardboard Another Rainy Afternoon in Pangone

12x24" 30x60cm acrylic on hardboard The Wide Valley

12x24" 30x60cm acrylic on hardboard Autumn Evening Road

12x24" 30x60cm acrylic on hardboard Rain

12x24" 30x60cm acrylic on hardboard The Reed Bank

Sunday, September 9, 2018

2018 Work

I am sorry about the infrequent posts in this blog. However, the fact is that I have not been painting all that much recently. My creative interest is now more focused on writing rather than on my painting. Hopefully going forward I can find more of a balance. However, to bring you up to date on my paintings, here they are.

18x24" 45x60 cm acrylic on hardboard Foggy Morning on Lark Street

18x24" 45x60 cm acrylic on hardboard Abstract in Shards

18x24" 45x60 cm acrylic on hardboard Sailing Barges at Night

18x12" 45x60cm acrylic on Hardboard Birdsong Square

18x24" 45x60 cm acrylic on hardboard Lanterna

18x24" 45x60 cm acrylic on hardboard A Beneath the Lanterns Cover (Painted over)

18x24" 45x60 cm acrylic on hardboard A Beneath the Lanterns cover (painted over)

18x24" 45x60 cm acrylic on hardboard Caravan to Treafara

18x24" 45x60 cm acrylic on hardboard Caravan to Traefara 2 (painted over)

18x24" 45x60 cm acrylic on hardboard Caravan to Mirra

18x24" 45x60 cm acrylic on hardboard Walking the Dog

From Birdsong Square down to Caravan to Mirra were pictures painted with an eye to being the cover of my 2018 novel, Beneath the Lanterns. Caravan to Mirra, modified in Gimp became the cover: