Portrait of 817
Apr 6, 2015
Portrait of 817. 12x12, oil on linen panel. 2015 This is another painting on a medium texture linen. The surface is hard to photograph - a cellphone picture from the side shows the painting better than a head-on shot. The cow looks pretty much as she appeared in real life but the setting was too com...
Soft, Hard, Scrambled: Edges in a Chicken Study
Apr 5, 2015
Soft, Hard, Scrambled Edges. 10x8, oil on linen panel. 2015. This painting was done to practice edge-work and to serve as a study for a future painting. The surface is a medium texture linen, less smooth than the portrait grades that I use, consequently I had to use more paint than usual. I applied ...
A Small Portrait of Hannah
Mar 30, 2015
A Small Portrait of Hannah. 9x12, oil on linen panel. 2015 A small painting of our dog, Hannah, that I painted this afternoon. I started it as a workshop demo which was subsequently scraped off - this is a smaller version or the original. I had already done a value study and a color study. That...
Separating Light from Shadow
Mar 25, 2015
Separate Light from Shadow (Rooster Head Study). 10x8, oil on linen panel. 2015. After teaching a small workshop yesterday where one of my themes was separating light from shadow, I decided to put some of my own advice into practice and do a sketch of the rooster at George's Mill Farm in Lovettsvill...
Bradford
Mar 20, 2015
Bradford. 14x11, oil on linen panel. 2015. The portrait sketch of Bradford is now finished. I made a few small tweaks to the nose and collar and did some general tidying up since it was first posted. ...
Faraway Farm IV
Mar 20, 2015
Fields at Faraway Farm IV. 11x14, oil on linen panel. 2015. About 18 months ago I did a series of paintings at Faraway Farm near Upperville, VA. This week I revisited one of those plein air pieces and used it as the basis for a studio painting. To make it more interesting I re-imagined the compositi...