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Charcoal Studies - Working Through Ideas Part I
Apr 12, 2016
Charcoal Sketches on paper (full sheet). 2016 Before investing a lot of time, effort and materials in a painting, I find it's always helpful to first work though my idea on paper. Simple studies like these help me to test out the compositions and make sure they have a good chance of working. I can m...
Discovery Park on Foot
Apr 6, 2016
Field Study: Discovery Park 040716. 6x12, oil on canvas panel. 2016. Moving from the Virginia countryside the city of Seattle has forced me to take on a different type of landscape in my paintings; I spent much of the winter trying to paint gray seascapes. However, in Discovery Park there is ...
Breaking the Ice with Leftovers
Apr 6, 2016
Trough Hill III. 6x12, oil on canvas panel. 2016 Procrastination is my forte. I've been finding other things to do for the past week rather than get back to the easel and start painting again. Since I was unable to get out of the house today, I decided to break the ice on the new studio and do some ...
Late Summer
Mar 25, 2016
Late Summer. 5x7, oil on linen panel. 2016 This is a small painting I did at the studio in Ballard from a reference photo that I took at a plein air painting location in Virginia. Working at this size is great for finding ways to simplify the landscape and use more expressive paint handling. Spring ...
Cell Phone Waiting
Mar 7, 2016
Cell Phone Waiting. 5x7, oil on linen panel. This was one of those little end-of-the-day sketches, the kind you do when the previous 5 hours in the studio haven't produced anything worthwhile. I based it on a photo I took at Dulles Airport one evening while waiting to pick up my wife. The ground was...
Puget Sound Looking North
Feb 24, 2016
Puget Sound North (plein air). 5x7, oil on linen panel. 2016 This high key sketch was done on the beach in Ballard (again!). This view catches my eye every time I go to the beach - over the water the north sky often has a pale blue cast that tends towards orange at the horizon. This was done en...