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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...
Sketch Marathon Day 3: Berlin Turnpike
May 2, 2016
Berlin Turnpike. 8x10, oil and cold wax on linen panel. 2016 As I work through the sketches each day, every painting becomes a learning experience. I slowed myself down and took a little longer with this painting, for example. I also added warmer light to the tops of the trees and telephone pole to ...
Sketch Marathon Day 2: Winter Dawn
Apr 30, 2016
Since I have a large number of panels on hand, I'm going to spend the next couple of weeks working on some sketches and studies based on notan designs. By producing at least two oil sketches and a dozen or so notan sketches each day, I aim to start generating some ideas for larger works that I can p...
Sketch Marathon Day 1: Morning, 25 December
Apr 29, 2016
Morning, 25 December. 8x8, oil and cold wax on linen panel. 2016 I remember this morning like it was yesterday. We'd had a light snowfall overnight and the morning was cold and slightly misty. The light was so captivating that I grabbed my camera and ran outside to take some photographs. We could of...
Color Studies - Working Through Ideas Part II
Apr 13, 2016
Study: Meadows at One Trick Farm. 6x8, oil on canvas panel. 2016 Continuing on from yesterday's blog post, the other thing that helps me to decide whether a painting will work or not is to try it out on a small scale. Among other things, this lets me to figure out the palette I will use in advance, ...