Lightly Cloaked

12″ x 12″Oil on Linen A new addition to the “Cloaked” series but with a lighter, cooler palette.

Alla Prima Process

Alla prima paintings are completed in one sitting.  When I paint a portrait this way, I draw with my brush, minding the spacial relationships between features.  Next, I lay in the darks using full color, to support the forms of the face.  The midtones, the lights and their transitions blend into the previous wet passages …

Two Views Two

  Oil on Linen 12″ x 16″           Same model, two views. Oil on Linen 12″ x 12″

Two Views

Same model, two views. 10″ x 10″Oil on Linen 18″ x 18 ” Oil on Linen

Study

No artist I know ever stops observing, never stops studying.  I’ve been away from this blog for a while, but I’ve been constantly working, studying.  The dissatisfaction with at least one element in every finished piece always drives the next piece.  Above are a few studies I’ve been working on, trying to “fix” something that …

Home

Home      12″x 12″ Oil on Canvas Probably my first landscape post.  I’m not a landscape painter, but the swamp is my home away from home.  A portrait was in order.

Expectations

Waiting   Oil on Linen 11″x 14″     The Lane  Oil on Linen 16″ x 20″

Gingers

Oil on Linen 11″ x 14″ This week I will be posting work realized during my long blogging hiatus.  This is the first of several portraits of red heads.  I love colors found in the skin tones and hair highlights of red heads.