10" x 8" Oil on Linen.
Our Christmas Easter Cactus is blooming. It is an amazing plant that we have failed to kill and it blooms twice a year. The flowers are very interesting a real challenge to capture.
Monday, April 02, 2012
Friday, March 30, 2012
Crumpled Paper Airplane
10" x 8" Oil on Linen.
This is a painting for the Crumpled Paper Challenge at DailyPaintworks. It was a fun study to make it read correctly from across the room, while keeping it loosely executed. Crash and Burn?
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Eggbeater Drill
12" x 12" Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas.
Grandpa's old "eggbeater" drill is still running very smooth. This is my take on the You Know the Drill Challenge at DailyPaintworks. I set the tool in the composition with a cool to warm background in the upper portion of the square.
Friday, March 23, 2012
Old Faithful #2
Approx 7" x 5" Oil on Linen.
My painting of Old Faithful can make me stop and look after 2 years. I liked how the pink underpainting gave the sky some liveliness. So I decided to revisit it today and let a little more undertone show through. I still like the effect. It is a little unusual to come back and execute a smaller study after the big painting, but maybe this is just another in a series.
Here is a peek at what it actually looks like on my easel.
Note that I plan to cut and mount this at 7" x 5" so not much of the pink border will show.
From across the room I really like how the image pops with the surrounding color, so I am thinking about going further and visiting it again with am extreme vignette.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Spring Snow
10" x 8" Oil on Linen.
Our second full day of Spring came with another blanket of snow. It soon melted off of the trees, but for the morning they sported an appealing flocking against a shocking blue sky. This is the top of one of the towering specimens behind our house.
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