Portrait of Two Children
Jan 16, 2013
This is the block in for a portrait of two children. Although I'm creating this from an old photograph provided by the customer I spent a long time getting the layout, values and scale to my liking before starting the block-in. Before starting to paint I did a large value-study in pencil on pa...
Portrait of Flash: New Painting Step 10
Dec 17, 2012
The portrait of Flash with a few changes requested by the customer. Although they were mostly small things I think they made a significant improvement in the overall look. A few more tweaks and I think it will be finished....
Sketch of Pearl
Dec 11, 2012
Pearl, oil on linen mounted on board, 12"x12". This is a sketch, rather than a formal portrait, and was done with a very quick turnaround time (and lots of alkyd medium) in order to get it ready for the holidays....
Tree Study
Dec 11, 2012
A small painting from the early fall at Ebenezer Church Rd just north of Bloomfield, VA. What drew me to paint the tree were the shadows that the branches were casting on the trunk. I worked in an impressionistic style to prevent the foliage from looking overworked, although the trunk required...
Another landscape with reworked sky
Dec 8, 2012
This is another landscape study with a re-worked sky. I broke up the flat expanse of blue sky by adding in some cloud formations which were there in real life, but had been omitted when I first painted this scene. The underlying gradation of value and chroma in the sky gives a very reali...
Landscape study
Dec 8, 2012
This is a study for a larger painting which is currently on display and for sale at Hillsborough Vineyards until the end of 2012. Originally painted with a flat grey sky, I used the same technique as in the previous post and scumbled some light, warm grey into the sky around the center of interest. ...