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Sketch Marathon Day 12: More Abstraction
May 13, 2016
Millville Road. 7x5, oil on linen panel. 2016 One of the things that I've been working on over the past couple of weeks has been an increased emphasis on abstraction. It's not that I suddenly want to declare myself an abstract painter, I just want to use it as a way to place more emphasis on the lig...
Sketch Marathon Day 10: Revisiting a Plein Air Notan Sketch
May 10, 2016
North Field. 8x10, oil on linen panel. 2016 Sketch marathon day 10. Starting to feel like I'm making some progress. [Before I continue, I have to say that this sketch didn't photograph very well (much like yesterday's painting). I'll try to get a better image when the paint has dried a little.] Yest...
Sketch Marathon Day 9: A Seago Palette
May 9, 2016
Golden Gardens Beach. 8x10, oil on linen panel. 2016 This painting is ostensibly of Golden Gardens beach, with a lot of clutter removed and the layout of the beach slightly altered. It's a scene that I've tried to paint before without success. Today, I spent more time developing the composition usin...
Sketch Marathon Day 7: Working Directly from Notan Sketches
May 6, 2016
North Bluff. 5x7, oil on linen panel. 2016 Today I took a bit of a different turn in my sketch-a-thon. Because I had other things that I needed to get done, I was only able to get a couple of sketches finished. I revisited some of the scraped-off field studies that I did yesterday, working from a co...
Sketch Marathon Day 5: Showers
May 4, 2016
Showers. 8x10, oil on linen panel. 2016 Another big effort today to keep up with my self imposed goal. I made several attempts to start another small painting, but I found myself getting too caught up in detail to make any of them work. In addition to this oil sketch, I also made about a dozen small...
Sketch Marathon Day 4: Discovery Park
May 3, 2016
Field Study: Discovery Park 050316. 8x10, oil on linen panel. 2016 And then there are difficult days! Today I decided to take my sketch marathon outdoors. I started a different painting three times (scraping it off after each attempt), before turning around and painting a different view. I was final...