As an artist, this is interesting. I feel as if I’m finding my personal voice in terms of influences: Impressionism v. Tonalist & Luminist art. (Those links open in a new window and take you to Wikipedia.) For me, Impressionism includes apparently disconnected colors & textures (at least, up close) that create the visual and…
Sometimes I look at an older painting and it’s lacking something. Oh, it’s often “nice enough,” but… well, that’s not enough for me unless it was just a quick sketch. My March 2010 painting, Spring is on the way, was like that. It just didn’t have the oomph that I wanted; that may be partly…
This is an example of what happens when I look at one of my earlier sketches and all I feel is, “Well, it’s okay…” I started with the oil sketch from January 8th, the Orange Hills at Sunset painting. Frankly, I was going to put it into eBay at a low starting price, just to…
Around dusk yesterday, our area lost all electric power. The silence was wonderful — no humming appliances — and no streetlights to influence the colors of the landscape. As the skies darkened, I decided to sit near a window and paint. The difficulty when painting in low-light conditions is that… well, in the darkness, I…
I’m still deciding how to represent the effects of snow on the landscapes outside my window. These are two sketches from the snowstorm on Saturday evening. I’m not sure if either of them is a completed work… yet. The first is a piece that I thought I’d completed, but the more I look at it,…
This is my 18″ x 24″ oil painting, Flurries Variation (13 Jan 2011). It’s sort of a landscape, but also an abstract. To be honest, it’s a bit of an enigma for me. Here’s the story: After I’d sketched-in the larger flurry painting – which turned out as a very high-key painting – I wanted…