Charcoal Study for New Horse Portrait
Aug 29, 2015
Charcoal Study for New Horse Portrait. approx 20x16. 2015 While I usually do these value designs as small 5x7 pencil sketches, when I’m working on a larger portrait I will often take a full sheet of paper and work out the design in charcoal. It helps to give a feel for the scale of what I'm ab...
Mountain Road, Hillsboro
Aug 27, 2015
(Updated June 2016) This is an oil painting I've had on and off the easel for a year. It took a long time and a lot of perseverance to find the right value scale, color palette and composition....
Retired: A Horse at Little Fiddlers Green
Aug 26, 2015
This oil painting in progress is of a horse I saw a couple of years ago at a paint out at Little Fiddlers Green in Bluemont, VA. I was taken by the look of the light falling across the body and the motif of the spots in the coat....
Return to Rock Spring Farm
Aug 22, 2015
Rock Spring Pond (plein air). 7x5, oil on linen panel. 2015 This small sketch was done in an impressionistic style with a very compressed value range. It was a humid, overcast day and there was no strong light. To avoid creating a somber mood I keyed the painting off the darks in the trees which I s...
Small Abstract Landscape
Aug 14, 2015
Meadow Grove Pond (Abstract). 8x10, oil on linen panel. 2015. This little painting is based on a plein air painting I did at Meadow Grove Farm late in July. Actually, it's painted directly on top of the old painting. The new painting is done in two layers: a fairly dull layer where I created colors ...
Setting Up for an Event
Aug 14, 2015
This post is a regurgitated email that I sent to a friend yesterday. If you're thinking of starting to sell your artwork at events, I've tried to provide a list of the things you'll need. To start, here's my display set up (this is from an event I did in May 2014): You can see that I've been lucky ...