Fast Portraits

Taking a break from large (for me) paintings. I want to master or a least get better at constructing and completing more complicated paintings-but every once in a while it works to begin and finish a small paintings.

Attitute Helps A Lot

A first step on an old painting. I was able to get to this stage of the painting without experiencing anxiousness, something I’ve been feeling for at least the last six or seven months.

Drawing Again

My good friend and artist Nancy got me out of the house and over to a drawing/sketch group up in the hills of Cave Creek (Beautiful, near a real creek) and once I started drawing life seemed to make sense (overly dramatic but what heck). I had forgotten how much I love drawing and especially working with a good model.

Painting a Head

We spend most of our time looking at peoples faces. I wanted to place this subjects hands on his head but couldn’t fiqure out how to capture this using a mirror. I’ve asked my wife to take a photo of me with my hands on my head so that I can complete the painting.

Restating a Painting

The goal with this painting as I went along was to find a way to knit the painting together with a architecturally structure and to give more body to figures in the foreground. I’ve muted the colors by laying on a dull green wash, which gets rubbed out or painted into. What is not visible now is that I painted in 5 lines that run from the low left to high right of the painting with each area painted with a slightly different of yellow paint. Right now they are just guides.

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I’ve added More to the Painting

As with the early version, I just taking a new look every day and adding more stuff to the painting.

3rd Run –

Both and the good and the bad about making stuff up is that you are making it up. I’ve got no clue as to what the end should look like.

Women 2

2nd pass