Looking For Light

While struggling with the dark “Cloaked” series, I felt compelled to search for a little light.  This is one of two recent pieces expressing that urge to find the light.  Tomorrow, another light seeking painting.

Newly Cloaked

                                                                          Oil on Canvas 8″x10″ I’ve painted five new “Cloaked” pieces but this is the only surviving painting.  More …

Stretch

Alla prima 16″x 20″ Oil on Linen While struggling with the  next set of “Cloaked” paintings,  I felt the need to work with a big brush, my favorite male model and some color!

Cloaked

11″x 14″ Oil on Linen “Cloaked” is essentially the next- generation in the “Divide Series”.  Much like the original “Divide Series”, there is a barrier-a separation between the individual and the world.  In this new series, the divide takes the form of a headpiece.  Its connotations may or may not be religious,  from a time long past, …

One, Two, Three

Occasionally, someone will ask about my painting process. I have in the past, posted my usual digital painting and oil painting process.  But once in a while, I’ll choose this method.  It’s not an overall block-in, refine and refine again way to work.  It is instead, a little by little fill in method. While this technique …

Portrait of S

Oil on Linen 24″x 24″ One of those paintings that I keep fussing with.  I’ll probably give it a week of rest and then fine tune it a little bit more.

Curls

Oil on Linen 14″x 18″ Alla Prima, with a concentration on my subject’s gloriously chaotic curls.

Restless

  16″x 20″ Oil on canvas A more limited palette.  I often lean on color to help me create form and interest. With this painting, I’ve limited color and used it sparingly, paying closer attention to line and shadow. This painting was my third effort-same subject, and the only one to survive;)

Illuminated

Oil on Linen 8″x 15″ An exercise I could have taken farther, but decided to leave as is.  

Secrets On The Breeze

Oil on Linen 24″x 24″ This painting has been “finished” for a couple of weeks now.  However, I’ve tweaked it almost every day for the past two weeks, each time thinking “ok, now it’s finished”.  It’s finished:)

Study of D:Looking up

I’m mad about linen.  Stretched, rolled, less expensive or deluxe, it IS my favorite painting surface. It felt decadent to use linen for a study, but I got over the splurge;)

LX

  Self Portrait          Oil on Linen 24″x 24″ It’s a big birthday, and I am grateful.

It May Be Spring

It may be spring, but in my neck of the woods, Mother Nature takes one springy step forward and then two frosty steps back.   A crocus or two have emerged, but nothing much that’s green has appeared yet.  In the swamp however, the migratory birds are back, and all of our bird population is …

My Self

  Oil on Linen 24″x 24″

Absorbed

Alla Prima 8″x 10″ I’ve been absorbed-finishing up some new work and painting over some old work.  I hope to post new paintings and also hope to be visiting your blogs very soon. Happy Spring! This painting is the third effort to inhabit this canvas.

Melange

  Oil on Linen 24×24″ A product of my recent exercises in backlight and line.  First in a series. Oh, and I’m pleased to share that my work and links are now included in the directory/gallery of the curated site, Figurative Artist.

Button Up

  Oil on Linen 18″x 24″ It’s pretty cold out there! I’m constantly pulling my coat a little closer.

Ponytailed

  Oil on Canvas 16″ x 20″ Alla Prima More backlight practice.

Values in Backlight

11″x14″ Oil on Canvas   I’ve often found myself frustrated while trying to realize form within a backlit subject.  The bright back round light tends to flatten the planes of a figure or face, making it difficult to read the values necessary to create the form of the features.  In a situation like this, the values …

Immersed

Oil on Canvas 11″X14″ Drawing on my experiments with line, a speedy alla prima oil.

Icy

Oil and Acrylic on Canvas 18″x 24″ It’s icing/snowing-again.