Sandy Point Shoal Lighthouse - Oil Study

 Yesterday and today, I did this oil study of the Sandy Point Shoal Lighthouse. I wanted to see if my colors and plans for painting this would work before committing this to the larger oil painting I have in mind.  I partially fixed the persective problems of my drawing.  I will probably re-draw the house in pencil so it is accurate and right for the large work but, this will work as a color study for how i will handle the lighthouse. 

Sandy Point Shoal Lighthouse, Maryland

This is a pencil sketch I did today of the Sandy Point Shoal Lighthouse near Annapolis Maryland and the Bay Bridge.  I did this as a study for a larger painting I am planing out.  More to come in the days to come.

Trains done with Marker

This is another experiment with Markers.  These are Penn Central Electric engines.  This is not my image but was a demonstration on how to capture engines with the grey markers.  I plan to use this technique with my own designs and images.  Failed experiments you will not see, as they don't survive long or they get redone until I am happy with them.

Fishing Boat

This is another experiment with markers.  This is a fishing boat, I don't remember where I found it.  The markers are a great way to quickly get a tonal representation of a scene.  Some artists do this as a preliminary before starting a  painting.  If you can master the tones or the relative lightness and darkness of things you can then master adding color to the scene.

Sawyer Glacier Fjord, Alaska Oil Painting

After a Day in the yard cleaning up debris from the storm, I decided to finish up an oil painting I had been working on for a while but I had trouble bring to its conclusion.  I am about 85% happy with it now and will leave it alone for a week or two and see if I then think I need to tweak anything in it.  This is a point with Spruce trees in the Sawyer Glacier Fjord in Alaska.

Tugboat, part 4

Back to the Tugboats, this was an experiment with markers of an old style Tug.  It was something I ran across in a demonstration of marker techniques and I did it also as practice.

Sloop Sailing ship

More practice pencil drawing, this is a Sloop sailing down wind under full sail.  This has been part of the my practice for the last few nights.