Sunday, September 28, 2008

Messy




Three sloppy little paintings, two in process. The tree is acrylic on cardboard. I love the way watered down acrylic looks on panel or board. The middle painitng is very thin oil on cardboard. It started out as underpainting for some future plein air work (too much bare canvas ends up showing through if the surface is white), but I think it will be a landscape made up of many thin layers of paint. I'd like to see how little information I can include and still have a clear image. The last painting is another plein air from Yellowstone. Sometimes a super quick sketch is the only way to get out of a rut with the watercolors, and sometimes nothing works.

Friday, September 19, 2008

Wyoming trip









Some watercolors from the Tetons and Yellowstone.

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Palomarin watercolor


Too hot to be in the studio and too nice not to be outside. 

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Two new little paintings



Just started these this week.  Hope to finish them in time for open studios in October.  Both are oil, the top one on canvas and the bottom one on gessoed cardboard.