after Sisley, fini

After Alfred Sisley's painting from 1873. The Seine at Bougival. 12" x 18"

This was very enjoyable to paint. 

I felt I wanted more practice painting landscapes to hopefully help 

when I do my own, 

either en plein air or from photos.

 The original lives at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris and is 18" x 25.75". 

Now I want to see it.

Below is a b&w. 

I do not think I got the values like AS did...and my sky is more turquois-ey.

After Sisley - Day 3

...progress.

After Sisley - Day 2

Beginning to add some color.

New practice work - Day 1

 On my easel right now is a prepared board on which I am doing 

a "cover" of one of Alfred Sisley's paintings.

This one has water, sky and distant trees - 

good for me to try to render in a similar way. 

Of course the photo I am using is in a book and 

very small, so really hard to copy exactly ...

I don't want to copy it exactly anyway. 

I am taking my time, but not trying to mimic -

 just getting a similar feeling, I hope.

 

These two shots were of my trying to get the values started,

and I did add a little color.

Happy eARTh Day!

Well, Mother Earth is giving some rainy day love to Southeast Alaska today,

but that is ok because it is a good time to make some

Zentangles!

These three are the first zentangles I have ever made. We were introduced to them by Cristine Crooks (a wonderful artist and one of Juneau's Plein Rein painters) 

while at the retreat in March.

Of course

I love the Zentangle, it is doodling!

When you read about them at their website,

you will find that you need a 3.5" square piece of paper 

and something to draw with ... that's it!

Let me know if you try it!

Up The Channel From Blueberry Hill

Up The Channel - from Blueberry Hill, oil on board, 13" x 15.75"

This painting was fun, using both palette knife and brushes.

Day 2 Up the Channel, Juneau

Trying to keep some of the cool (meaning neat) colors I had on the board from disappearing. Also the textures make some interesting shapes ... 

and interesting surprising bumps with brush or palette knife.

Juneau painting!

Ok, this looks weird because I started the painting on a board with lots of left-over paint smashed over it. It was gessoed ...

Anyway, I had a photo of the view as we walked down from Blueberry Hills, on Douglas Island the other day. Thought it might be fun to try to capture.

Here goes ...

April on the North Santiam River

Driving from Wyoming, we zipped across Idaho - 

then across Oregon to Bend, in the high desert.

From there we headed north through the Santiam Pass 

and drove along the North Santiam River for awhile.

We found a nice place 

(cool though because of the snow on the bridge) 

for me to do a little oil sketch en plein air.

Sketch using the "Paper" App

Ok, I'm learning about the Blogsy app to use it if I need to download from sketches with the App PAPER on my tablet. (Yes, I have one ...)

 

Posted with Blogsy

Painting of Claire "backstory"

I began with a photo of my Mom and did the sketch above. 

I think the pencil sketch looks a little like 

my little Aunt Gertie, my Mom's oldest sister 

who died 7 years ago (a few months shy of 100!).

The following are photos of the painting's progress, 

with the b&w showing the values:

Thanks for looking!

Happy Birthday Mom!

Claire Christine, 14" x 11", oil on canvas, April 2012

Happy Birthday to the best Mommu ever!

I painted this in honor of her birthday last year.

I kept record of the painting progress and will post

those tomorrow.

We are back from Wyoming, back to the rugged Alaska mountains 

and ever-changing ocean here in Juneau. 

It feels so good to be home, but we sure have fun 

visiting new places and getting to see family!

I have been sketching a little, but not enough, on the road.

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