The fog painting works as an icy landscape when it's flipped over. Freaky.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
More watercolor
Plein air again today. I'm learning to slow down with the watercolors. The crazy skies looked like a mess of high clouds and low fog with a bright blue background. Gave me a chance to experiment with how to work with wet on wet. All are 9"x12".
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Plein air oils!
Plein air paintings done over the last few days. All are oil on canvas or canvas panel, and most are about 14"x18" (the bottom one is 20"x28"). This is my first week of plein air oils. Watercolor on location now seems easy by comparison. Most of these will be reworked at least a little bit in the studio. Still learning how to handle all that wet paint on the canvas and keep it from turning to mud.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Figure drawing
I finally made it out to one of the figure drawing sessions down in the mission. All drawings are pencil or conte. Poses range from one minute (sketches at the bottom) to twenty minutes (sketches at the top).
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Rowdy jay style
Back to drawing birds at the California Academy of Sciences. It's been a while since I've done any drawing with sharp pencils (last time I drew the birds was in November), so I thought I might start with conte. It was messy and kind of like making sculpture. Lots of fun and pretty surprising at the same time.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Process
This is a painting from memory of the fog coming in just below the top of Mt. Tam last week. It looked like someone had pulled a large curtain around it. Very strange.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
New Painting
Started a new painting, my first with oils in 12 years. It will be hard to want to paint with acrylics again. The landscape is the oyster farm and estuary at Point Reyes, and this will be the first in a series. It's on the small side (for me) at 45"x64". The top image is five sessions of painting. The bottom image is four.
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