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…
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 sunrises feature the brightest colors…
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 (in back of me) and…
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 of the color. The completed…