Sketch Marathon Day 9: A Seago Palette
May 9, 2016
Golden Gardens Beach. 8x10, oil on linen panel. 2016 This painting is ostensibly of Golden Gardens beach, with a lot of clutter removed and the layout of the beach slightly altered. It's a scene that I've tried to paint before without success. Today, I spent more time developing the composition usin...
Sketch Marathon Day 8: Back to the Water
May 7, 2016
Soar. 8x10, oil on linen panel. 2016 A customer gave me some great feedback on the seascape I did earlier in the week. With that in mind I revisited one of the plein air themes I'd worked on over the winter. My goal was to put more in the foreground: this started off as waves and beach but, after ad...
Sketch Marathon Day 7: Working Directly from Notan Sketches
May 6, 2016
North Bluff. 5x7, oil on linen panel. 2016 Today I took a bit of a different turn in my sketch-a-thon. Because I had other things that I needed to get done, I was only able to get a couple of sketches finished. I revisited some of the scraped-off field studies that I did yesterday, working from a co...
Sketch Marathon Day 6: Olympic Peninsula
May 5, 2016
Olympic Peninsula (plein air). 8x10, oil on linen panel. 2016 Of the four field studies that I did today, this is the only one I decided to keep. Despite the grandiose title, I painted this at the Smith Cove Park marina here in Magnolia, just 5 minutes from our house. I timed my arrival (accidentall...
Sketch Marathon Day 5: Showers
May 4, 2016
Showers. 8x10, oil on linen panel. 2016 Another big effort today to keep up with my self imposed goal. I made several attempts to start another small painting, but I found myself getting too caught up in detail to make any of them work. In addition to this oil sketch, I also made about a dozen small...
Sketch Marathon Day 4: Discovery Park
May 3, 2016
Field Study: Discovery Park 050316. 8x10, oil on linen panel. 2016 And then there are difficult days! Today I decided to take my sketch marathon outdoors. I started a different painting three times (scraping it off after each attempt), before turning around and painting a different view. I was final...