5x7DownChannel

I am loving this exercise. I'm not adding as much paint as I thought I would, but it still is really fun to see how each painting comes out - looking only at the one before it.

DownChannel 8 x 10

DownChannel 8" x 10"  oil on prepared canvas board

Here is the second painting using as reference the first. It is lighter down the channel. I used a more limited palette and didn't use any greens or blues other than the ultramarine blue.

I think it was fairly quick, and there is more paint, but not a ton more.

I've decided to use this as an exercise -

 I will use this painting as my reference and make a 5" x 7" painting...

then that one and do a smaller painting and then

maybe even a smaller one. 

They should be getting faster and faster, as well.

I commented yesterday in a "comment" (because I forgot to mention it when I posted)

 that VPO did post my Uncle Tim's Bridge painting.

Yay!

Oh - this is an update. I forgot to include the b&w value study:

 

Down Channel, 8 x 10 - Day 2

Didn't get tons done on this today.

 

 Am at the point where I will have to keep talking to myself and say, "Use more paint!"

For some reason, with all the water and the sky it is hard not to blend blend blend.

I did finish my two 12 x 12's for the Juneau City Museum fundraiser 

- set to open First Friday in February, the 7th.

The theme this year is Black & White. 

I will post those progressions after I enter the paintings in the exhibit.

Lots o paint version

I dunno, I even like this the way it is in its sepia-toned form.

Look familiar?

I am going to paint Down Channel with MORE PAINT.

Painting something over again, using the painting as the reference is a good exercise.

Also, it is interesting (to me) how the palette looks afer you finish a painting.

This was after Uncle Tim's Bridge painting was finished.

... and I haven't seen it posted on the VPO site yet.

VPO Uncle Tim's Bridge

Uncle Tim's Bridge     12" x 12"     oil on canvas

This is my Virtual Paintout painting for January. 

(I hope it gets posted to the blog! ... do have a look in a few days. There are a great many good paintings there ... and lots of the Nauset Lighthouse! 

... we visited Nauset Light and took its photo.)

This was not a fast painting, but not too bad, either. Tried to keep it impressionistic.

Here is the link in Google Maps to see where the Google Car took the photo. You must allow the site to load so you can see the street view.

It has a special meaning for us (Matt and me) since we were really there in October, instead of virtually there, as I usually am for VPO.

I figure this was springtime. Can you see the people on the bridge?

... and THANKS for taking a gander at my blog!

VPO - Day 4

VPO - Day 2 & 3

Pluggin' along ...

Virtual Paintout - Cape Cod - Day 1

Virtual Paintout this month is Cape Cod!

Well that is serendipitous because we visited Cape Cod on our October east coast trip.

This bridge joins a trail on the other side of the marshy tidewater area 

with a Wellfleet town main street.

 

It is called Uncle Tim's Bridge. 

(that link is a Yelp app, handy for finding out about all kinds of things as you travel)

eek, hope i can do it justice...

Down Channel - Day 3

Down Channel      13" x 16"     oil on panel

Down Channel - 2

Down Channel, from the bridge

This is the beginning of a painting. Was going to post two progressions but blogger and iPhoto are not working with me.

Abstracted Pear, and Egg

Pear&Egg(abstracted version)

Messing around with iPhoto's effects ... and this came out! I like it!

...aaand Happy New Year!

Pear&Egg        8"x8"      oil on canvas

The color is strangely golden because of the lights I used when photographing this...

I sure love pears. Both to eat and to paint. This will not be the last pear I will paint...or eat.
It is already eaten. It was a Royal Riviera pear from Harry and David.
A juicy delicious box arrives nearly every Christmas from Matt's sis and b-i-l.
Thanks again, Mar and Bill!!

Happy Last Day of 2013!

Pear & Egg. The start. Just some practicing. 

Faces #11 - Day 3 Fini

Mimi    6" x 6"  oil on panel

The only thing I changed from this is the hat ... I made the brim a bit larger.

Mimi's food/photo blog

... check her blog out, it is great!

Faces #11 - Day 2

Yes, I did sign it but still have more to do ...

Next post will have the finished painting.

Faces # 11 - Day 1

Guess I had better get painting if I want an even number of Faces paintings! .... 

(for exhibiting????)

I have just about finished number 11, after getting permission to paint

Mimi Thorisson, from a photo of her on her incredible and amazing

food/photo blog, Manger. This link directs to a recent post. 

I really really like her blog - she does not post often, but it is fairly regular. (I have signed up for her email blog posts, like I would love you to do!)

She lives, cooks, and blogs in Medoc, France, sigh ... what could be better? 

(well, if I lived there of course I would paint in addition to cooking ... )

Here is the beginning of the painting:

Merry Christmas!

Two Red Flames (after Gerhard Richter)   12" x 9"   oil on Wallis paper

I love Richter's candle series and thought it appropriate for Solstice and Christmas.

Cheers and Happy Holidays to one and all!

Crawford Notch Painting

The Standout        21" square       oil on canvas

A few lyrics from a song called Stand Out 

- from the Disney movie "A Goofy Movie". (I didn't see it.)

To stand out
Above the crowd
Even if I gotta shout out loud
Till mine is the only face you'll see
Gonna stand out till you notice me, yeah...

This tree was definitely shouting out.

All the others were just a crowd.

Thanks for looking at my art blog!

Crawford Notch - Day 2

 I am not very far into this painting, but when the two are next to each other like this, 

I think it might work!

It is challenging to work larger. And in a square format.

One painter/blogger I follow (of many) is Cathleen Rehfeld who lives in Oregon, 

where I was born.

I appreciate her loose style and her color work. She does landscape and still life paintings with a brisk clean method of applying paint.

Sometimes I wonder if I should learn to play chess so I can learn to plan ahead.

Nah....I would rather paint.

We are taking off for southern points for Thanksgiving visiting, so not sure I will make much more progress on this until we are back (in two weeks). But I will have my artrage app and perhaps be able to try some stuff for this painting with it! ... and BlogGo seems to be working again, so I may try to post little things on the go.

Thanks for looking and commenting!

Crawford Notch II - on the easel

Crawford Notch II

So, not sure if any of you follow other artist's blogs, but I do and the ones that I follow post their paintings and I learn something each time I view one.

And each time I begin a painting, I feel like I have no idea what I am doing ...

... so here we go again. I decided to do a bigger painting 

of the small study I did at Crawford Notch.

These are a coupla photos of the start.

Imagination

Mt Jumbo from the mainland - iPad painting

oops, I should have posted this
over at my painting daily blog

ok, from now on the artrage stuff goes there

:)

October - Nauset Marsh

We were so excited to see Nauset Marsh on Cape Cod. This is where Frank Weston Benson had a hunting cabin and did many sketching

 studies for his magnificent bird etchings, which we were able to make appointments to SEE at the Boston Public Library 

AND the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

We were allowed to take photos, so here are a couple of his wonderful etching prints:

We hiked out the trail to Salt Pond at Nauset Marsh.

I set up right here and there was a GBH (Great Blue Heron) hunting at the edge of the water. We were very quiet and sat very still and he didn't mind us. 

He hunted and caught stuff right there in front of us!

 

 This is the scene I painted.

 

This me painting. 

Several people were hiking the trail. Some were quiet and just went on by 

and some stopped to chat.

 

in situ

Nauset Marsh, October       8" x 10"       Oil on prepared canvas board

 

It is ok. I think there are some things I can fix, value-wise.

I like it because I loved the area.