Charcoal Sketch of a Gloucestershire Old Spot
Dec 31, 2015
Gloucestershire Old Spot. Charcoal on paper, 11x24 (approx). 2015. In this sketch I'm working on the layout for a painting of a pig I met at Ayrshire Farm in Upperville, VA. Sketching it out like this lets me see the image without any of the clutter in the photograph. The abstract idea is to have a ...
Sunset
Dec 30, 2015
Sunset (cell phone pic of the painting). 5x7, oil on linen panel. 2015 A cloudless sky at sunset seems to dwarf the land and I am always drawn to the continuum of the color changes in the sky. The contrast of the warm sky against a flat landscape feels like something worth trying to capture. I came ...
More Beach Painting
Dec 29, 2015
Bainbridge Island (plein air). 9x12, oil on linen panel. 2015 Today I managed to get back to the beach for my last plein air effort of 2015. It was less windy than the last outing but still fairly cold. After my experiences on the first outing I made a knotted bag that can be filled with stones to k...
Painting at the Beach
Dec 23, 2015
After several days of rain I made the most of a brief break in the weather and went to paint at the local beach. It's just a ten minute trip from the studio but I can't think of a more challenging environment in which to set up an easel: it was cold, windy, it rained and the easel blew over. I ...
Bunny in Progress
Dec 22, 2015
Bunny (WIP). 14x11, oil on linen panel. 2015. It's been a while since I finished any new work so I jumped the gun and posted this one before completing it. This is done from the customer's own photograph. This first layer is painted directly over a (dried) raw umber block in and was done in one sess...
Setting up the New Studio
Dec 9, 2015
I'm almost done moving in to the new studio in Ballard. This is a shot I took when I was halfway through. The studio has north light windows and I've put in some daylight LED bulbs above as work lights. I'm not sure their color rendering index is going to be great, but I think they will work when co...