This morning’s skies looked ominous at first, and the colors were there for just a couple of minutes.  I was glad that I’d already set out my palette with the colors I was likely to need. This was a small, fast oil sketch on an 8″ x 10″ canvasboard. Many

It was another sunrise with quickly-changing skies.  I had to work very quickly to capture the colors on these two 8″ x 10″ canvasboards. The first one includes darker colors and higher contrast. (In real life, the reds aren’t that vivid, blue-ish, or light.) The sun was just coming up

With some minor changes, the larger Flurries at Dusk painting is now completed. (See the nearly completed version plus backstory, here. Mostly, I added contrast in some areas, and softened the white areas in the sky.) It’s a higher key than I’d expected, but I’m pleased with the lyrical quality

This is the second of two paintings of this morning’s sunrise.  Within minutes of completing the early sunrise painting, shades of pink seemed to dominate the sky. Continuing the theme of “urgency” from my previous work, I deliberately chose a larger canvas.  This painting is on an 11″ x 14″

This is the first of this morning’s two oil paintings capturing the sunrise. I was consciously working with more vivid colors to capture the true impression of the sunrise. Though I wanted to keep tweaking the painting to get it “just so,” I’m also very inspired by yesterday’s discussion with

Some of my oil sketches are sort of doodles… quick artwork exploring themes. That’s a good description of this sketch of the woods near our home. The purpose of this was to see what would happen if I tried to convey sunset colors through the trees. It’s a whimsical piece