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Sketch Marathon Day 24: South Lawn
Jun 3, 2016
Field Study: South Lawn. 5x7, oil on linen panel. 2016 I managed to get outside and do a little sketching at the local park this afternoon. As this is a just a field study, I spent most of my time trying to get the colors and values right. On the treeline I found that less is more - the single ...
Sketch Marathon Day 23: Japanese Tea Bowl
May 30, 2016
Japanese Tea Bowl. 8x8, oil on linen panel. 2016 To paint this tea bowl, I started by making a careful, painterly rendition of it on the panel. Then I blended the entire surface with a painting knife and worked to resurrect something that resembled a tea bowl from the resulting mess. It's not quite ...
Sketch Marathon Day 22: Listening to Obscure Podcasts
May 27, 2016
Ascent. 6x9, oil on linen panel. 2016 It was interesting to find how little color was needed to make this sketch work. I was expecting my palette to look like a peacock, but it ended up being full of grayed-out and browned-out piles of paint. The value range is just two or three value steps, I ...
Sketch Marathon Day 21: Chickening Out
May 26, 2016
Looking Back. 8x8, oil on linen panel. 2016 I've been working intensely over the past three weeks to develop ideas for new paintings and most of these have been landscapes or seascapes. For a change, I decided to spend today on a sketch for a chicken painting that I've been meaning to do for a while...
Sketch Marathon Day 20: Painting in the Sand Dunes
May 25, 2016
In the Dunes (plein air). 7x11, oil on linen panel. 2016 Continuing in my quest to develop ideas for new paintings, I worked outside at Golden Gardens Beach today. The light and sky were basically the same as they were in winter, but the temperature was much more pleasant. I found a great place to p...
Sketch Marathon Day 19: Lupins
May 24, 2016
Lupin Meadow. 5x7, oil on linen panel. 2016 I walked past this meadow yesterday and made a few notan sketches. In the studio this morning I worked up a sketch on a scraped down panel....