Cell Phone Waiting
Mar 7, 2016
Cell Phone Waiting. 5x7, oil on linen panel. This was one of those little end-of-the-day sketches, the kind you do when the previous 5 hours in the studio haven't produced anything worthwhile. I based it on a photo I took at Dulles Airport one evening while waiting to pick up my wife. The ground was...
A Very Gray Day
Mar 2, 2016
Gray Day. 9x12, oil and cold wax on linen panel. 2016. Rapidly changing conditions and lack of light made for difficult painting conditions today. In retrospect, the cold wax medium also made the painting harder to execute. There's something about this season that can make overcast gray skies f...
Clouds on the Horizon
Feb 26, 2016
Clouds on the Horizon. 9x12, oil and cold wax on linen panel. 2016. This was created from a combination of two different field (or should that be beach?) studies in an attempt to recreate the feeling of light in the sky over Puget Sound. Using cold wax medium gave the paint a lot of body. I tried to...
Puget Sound Looking North
Feb 24, 2016
Puget Sound North (plein air). 5x7, oil on linen panel. 2016 This high key sketch was done on the beach in Ballard (again!). This view catches my eye every time I go to the beach - over the water the north sky often has a pale blue cast that tends towards orange at the horizon. This was done en...
Ridgeline (plein air)
Feb 22, 2016
Ridgeline (plein air). 10x8, oil and cold wax on linen panel. 2016. Since I moved to Seattle, I've had the chance to paint on location several times over the winter. Because the beaches are so accessible, I've painted mostly seascapes. Even though I went to the beach again today I took a different v...
Portrait of Oban
Feb 17, 2016
Oban. 12x12, oil on linen panel. 2016. Here's a portrait that I'm putting the finishing touches to. This was done from the customer's own photographs. As you probably can tell, black dogs are really challenging to paint. I like to compare it to playing the piano with just your left hand: it's diffic...