Yellow Rose lying in the sun. 5×7″ Canvas panel
Category Archives: Painting
It’s a bloody orange!
Actually, it’s a Blood Orange. If you have never had one you have to try it, but quick before they go out of season! I love them. I had to paint that bloody orange, especially with sunlight passing through it! 5″x7″ Canvas Panel
Thinking Warm and Sunny
Thinking about warm and sunny places. They tasted good too! 5×7″ canvas panel
Study for Mural of Heaven WIP
This is a study for a mural of heaven, I’m painting for St. Thomas More Parish. The mural will be painted with acrylics 8.5’x 24.5′. The study is 8.5″x 24″. I will be posting more images as it progresses. I’m considering recording a time lapse of the mural being painted.
A close up of the left half.
Palette Knife Painting
Playing with acrylic on a palette knife, and painting what landscape I see in my head. I’m getting adjusted to the feel of it! It’s great fun! I’m going to experiment with oils and palette knife soon and compare the results. 8×10″ canvas, landscape painted around the edges.
Palette Knife Play
If it’s been a long time since I’ve painted, why not use lots of paint!
I enjoyed slopping it on liberally!
6″x6″ Acrylic on canvas panel
Playing with Paint
And now for something completely different… I realized that I hadn’t painted since last winter, and painting is my mainstay. The project that had consumed me for the past six months was in pastel. This morning I was in the mood! I never use a palette knife, but I wanted to play and experiment. I proceeded without a plan, or an image in my head, just lots of paint on my palette, and a knife. I am reasonably satisfied with the outcome, and I know how I want to proceed tomorrow, with a plan, loads of fresh paint, and a blank canvas.
Book Cover for David’s Journey
This is the cover, not approved yet. Rendered in oil pastel on brown paper 11.5″x14″ scale 127%. One of the most challenging pages, since it had so many people and had to come from my imagination, and from a country I’ve never been. I could have photographed the back cover adjoined to it. I will do that tomorrow.
Herding Cattle Illustration
This is the illustration for the cattle herding boy, I haven’t rendered the boy yet because I am wondering if I want to redo it. I was experimenting with how to do the water and I’m not sure if want to try it another way. I’m also not liking the ribbed paper. I will start the next illustration on Canson paper and see how that goes before I finish this one. I am my own worst critic. 😉
Apple and Grapes (WIP)
I fine tuned the shapes and put in almost all the details. Now, all that remains to do is the stems. Never again on canvas with pastel, even though it’s coming out okay. It’s just uses up more pastels. I am straying from the reason why I gave oil pastels a shot is because I want to make fluid marks. Still life doesn’t inspired that. Landscapes with energetic strokes was my plan, that will be next, after I have stems on my fruit.
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