Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Portsmouth Island, North Carolina



With this series of photos you can see how I develop a painting from block-in to refinement.  While not done, I like how this is advancing.  I need to finish the wave action and to sort out the green vegetation on the barrier island.   This is an oil painting.

Monday, May 1, 2017

Monday Night Faces

After a day of work, I decided to draw this evening, so I have been practicing the quick sketch of faces from the Andrew Loomis Book.  This is part of the practice of 10,000 hours.  So enjoy it.

Sunday, April 30, 2017

Sunset over the Caribbean

So not a lot of artwork this weekend but I did start on this sunset painting.  This is a good start but I am working on being more subtle so I will have to add some glazes to this painting to get all the color complexity I want.

Thursday, April 27, 2017

Not the most exciting but Work needs to be done

The title line says it all.  I am trying to work on quick sketches and same size sketching of images out of an Andrew Loomis book to work on basic skills.

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Drawing work

The development of art skills, like anything else requires work on the basics and I have relooped back to work on basics.  This is basic skills from Andrew Loomis, an artist and instructor from the 1930s.  He is considered a classic instructor and a brilliant writer of art books.  So I am going to draw everything he recommends to get my skills better, when I am not painting.

Saturday, April 22, 2017

Provision Company - clean up


Tonight I have cleaned up some of the problems with the start up of the Provision Company Restaurant in Southport, North Carolina.  I have improved my details, shadow, colors and the roof lines.  I added the lights and the wire to telephone pole.  I need to finish the sign and add the final details to this painting.  I may do it tomorrow or Monday.

Friday, April 21, 2017

Lazuli Bunting - finished up


So Happy Friday, I decided to rework the background on this and I have reworked some of the feathers and the branches.  I think this is good now.   So Enjoy!