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Monday, September 26, 2016
Cloudscape
Got back into painting with oil after self portrait. This is a work in progress but it's pretty close now.
Self Portrait
Decided to try another self portrait in oil this time. 16x20 on canvas. Used my facebook profile as reference pic!
Monday, December 21, 2015
Monday, December 7, 2015
JFK pencil
Used to love this era and all the excitement of the new space program and the new age. Decided to do a pencil of Kennedy.
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Monday, August 4, 2014
Another layer on "Partly Cloudy with Chance of Showers"
Oil 16x20: Original painting had some drip marks from some linseed oil I was using in medium and decided to paint over them and enhance the painting. Added the rain under the cloud and some other thunderheads in the background. Haven't painted anything in about 9 months. Felt good to have paintbrush in hand again. Someday!
Friday, December 27, 2013
Is There Anybody Out There?
I was browsing some pictures from the #Hubble and saw some interesting pictures that looked like they would be a challenge and fun to paint. Makes me stand in awe of our God who is as endless as we consider the universe to be. I read recently where the known universe is 94 billion light years across! That is 94 billion times 6 trillion miles! Incredible!
Oil on canvas 48x24
Oil on canvas 48x24
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Day at the Beach
Painted over my last post of the "Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Showers" with this one. Just never liked the way the clouds came out. Oil on canvas 16x20. This canvas now has three paintings on it, first was a Grand Tetons type scene, then the clouds and now the beach!
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Monday, May 27, 2013
Friday, May 24, 2013
Deer head
Saw a painting by Justin Gaffrey of this deer head and decided to give it a go. He uses very thick acrylic paint to build up a 3D effect. I added texture for the antlers.
First Abstract
Trying something new today, first abstract. Was fun working with color but the process can be never ending. You must have an idea in mind before you start, otherwise you can just go and go. Had color too thick at first and starting wiping down, as I did I liked the effect and then layers on pure color. My thought process was to show movement from left to right ending with focal point at the red spot that is in the edge of blue area. I also wanted the contrast do red and green as complimentary colors to add excitement and vibration. I liked the ethereal cloud like effect and went on to paint a similar painting below of a Hubble inspired nebula in the LCM area of the Milky Way.
Monday, March 25, 2013
Self portrait for contest
Started on this self portrait for an contest that Jerry's Artarama is having this month. Used a small mirror hanging off the side of my easel. Not turned it in yet because I have much more to do in the next few days. Have not had much time to work on it and I work in my garage trying to use natural sunlight but it's been so cold and dreary lately that I've had not had the time I'd like to work on it. Done in Unison pastels and NuPastels on Canson paper.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Sunflowers Oil Painting + Butterfly
So I decided to go ahead and work on that sunflower painting today! Got a good start this morning and will start again tomorrow. My wife and oldest daughter stopped by a field close to a place called the Agricenter here in Memphis and snapped some photos of these beautiful sunflowers when they were in full bloom. They do this every year and each year I stop by and take a look and some photos. Just happened to catch a nice butterfly leaving a flower. Thought it would make a nice painting, so this morning I got to work and knocked it out. Was fun to paint and have some more to do to it but putting paintings on my blog always makes me want to go back and do some more! This is a 16x20 oil on canvas.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Motivation to Paint (Lack of)
I am in one of those non-creative times in my life where I don't feel like starting a painting because I don't think it will be up to my standards, so I just don't start! Life has been so busy with work and daughters starting to college and driving that I just don't have energy to paint right now. My dream job would be to have a small art studio/gallery in some resort town and just paint all day and meet like minded people who enjoy art for art. Who knows, maybe after posting this I will go home and paint tonight! I have a oil painting started of some sunflowers that my wife and I took photos of a few weeks ago. I got the background all blocked in but just can't seem to get started on the flowers.
Monday, June 11, 2012
Avenue of Oaks
Commission painting of "Avenue of Oaks", a beautiful place in South Carolina. . A lot going on in this painting and trying to do justice to the moss that hangs from the branches. When I first saw the image to paint from I thought of that scene from the movie Forrest Gump where he was running with his leg braces and they started falling off. This photo of the painting was not the final product. The painting got delivered before I took one last photo. At first I thought this would be too busy of a subject to paint but it actually was a lot of fun and I enjoyed working on it. I started off by blocking in light and dark areas with acrylic paint and just simplified the grass and trees concentrating on the play of light in the tree branches and the road.
SOLD
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Avenue of the Oaks |
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Portrait of Megan
Friday, April 27, 2012
Pastel of my Grandmother Addie Wilkins
Pastel on Canson paper approximately 16x20.
I took a portrait class from Daniel Green at his annual summer workshop in his home in North Salem NY back in 2005. He demonstrated a pastel portrait one evening from a live model that I was absolutely mesmerized with. I have been using his techniques of marking off the head into four equal sections, using Nupastels to lay in the drawing and then working from dark to light with softer pastels. I did this painting 4 or 5 years ago and have learned so much since then. This was a quick painting to give my mother for Christmas. My grandmother has since passed away but this painting hangs in my mom's home for her to remember how special and loving my grandmother was. I also have my grandfather posted in this blog in another post. We miss you MawMaw!
Monday, January 10, 2011
Pastel of Abby
Pastel on canson: Work in progress of my youngest daughter Abby. Doing the pastel as a study for an oil painting to come later. Plan to paint all three daughters again. I have been studying with a very talented artist here in Memphis named Frank Morris who does astounding work.
http://www.frankmorrisportraits.com
My current goal is to become better at judging values and edges.
http://www.frankmorrisportraits.com
My current goal is to become better at judging values and edges.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Cotton bolls
Oil 14x18: It "cotton pickin" time here in the south (Memphis area) and you find cotton everywhere. My wife decided to pick some cotton bolls branches and make an arrangement in a vase. This is my composition of the arrangement. I couldn't pass up a chance to paint something that you just take for granted around here. My mom has worked in the cotton business for about 50
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years.
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years.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Red Flowers (picked)
11x14 (canvas) Reworked: I just didn't like the last post of the red flowers on a summer day. Never got them to look like i wanted so I just (picked) them out and made it a field of smaller flowers! I may try using the palette knife in the future for looser flowers as suggested on WetCanvas in the landscape forum.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
Barn commission
This is a painting from a photo a friend of ours ask me to paint of a barn where she grew up. The photo was almost a sepia color due to its age so I had to put in my own interpretation of color. The painting is 8x10 on panel and I'm going to paint a larger 16x20 for her as well. This small one will go into a frame that is made from the actual barn wood. SOLD
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Finding time to paint
I seem to go through times when I'm all fired up to paint and create something new and other times when busy schedules, work stress or just plain being tired keeps me from painting. I think about sometimes of all the paintings that are being missed out on by my laziness! Some of my reluctance to paint is from the fear of "not being able to paint a masterpiece" each time I step up to the easel. I guess my masterpiece will always be my "next" painting. I read that somewhere and thought it was so true. I think in the end that the process of painting is just that. It's just a process and a journey to be enjoyed along the way. Maybe I can inspire myself here to pick up that brush tonight when I get home from work!
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Demo for Rita Crocker Art Conservatory class
This is a demonstration painting I did for an art class I taught at the Rita Crocker Art Conservatory at Trinity Baptist church a few years ago. I had a small class that had never painted before and had a great time teaching. All of the work in the class came out great and I was very proud of my students. This was painted quickly for the class using whatever I could find laying around our kitchen beforehand.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Jenna in pencil
Portrait of Jenna my middle daughter in pencil and charcoal 11x14. Jenna was valedictorian of her class this year,won an art contest for the school which puts her painting on the Shelby County school calendar for this next year. She also won a school essay contest which earned her a lunch with an author from a book her class read and the school art contest to have her drawing on T-Shirts that the whole school wore on the end of year picnic. She is a very talented piano player and loves to read.
This was the first of three pencil portraits I tried of each of my daughters. I used Arches paper and was very pleased with the results. It is a very forgiving paper and took a lot of abuse. I've only used three of the sheets so far and I think there are 40 in the binding, so I need to get busy.
I did this picture free hand after using the grid methods for so long. I always felt like I was cheating using the grid method and found it to be very tedious and frustrating. I took a class by Daniel Green, a very well know portrait artist a few years ago and was fascinated by how he could capture a likeness using proportions and angles. I began trying it out and really liked the results. I found it much easier to get a likeness by just drawing rather than looking for shortcuts to drawing. I even used to use a projector many years ago but it always had a rather odd look to it in the end and put it away in the attic about 10 years ago!
This was the first of three pencil portraits I tried of each of my daughters. I used Arches paper and was very pleased with the results. It is a very forgiving paper and took a lot of abuse. I've only used three of the sheets so far and I think there are 40 in the binding, so I need to get busy.
I did this picture free hand after using the grid methods for so long. I always felt like I was cheating using the grid method and found it to be very tedious and frustrating. I took a class by Daniel Green, a very well know portrait artist a few years ago and was fascinated by how he could capture a likeness using proportions and angles. I began trying it out and really liked the results. I found it much easier to get a likeness by just drawing rather than looking for shortcuts to drawing. I even used to use a projector many years ago but it always had a rather odd look to it in the end and put it away in the attic about 10 years ago!
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Selling my work
Spent yesterday at the Arlington Open Market with my wife in a booth we shared for our art and her jewelry. This is a once a month event and is usually followed by a night of music and food on the square. Some shows are better than others as far as how much we sell. My wife tends to sell more of her floral paintings that are unusual in that she uses stucco spread over canvas and then uses a tool to sketch a flower like a daisy and then paints with bright acrylic paint. My work tends to be more representative in nature leaning toward realism. Sometimes I may sell one or two paintings but it is always frustrating to not sell more. I will get commissions sometimes which are stressful at times because you are trying to fit a mold that someone has in mind instead of selling something that is already complete. We always get very good comments but would like to be more successful. I try to read all I can and enjoy forums like WetCanvas to get feedback and ideas. Anyone have comments on the best way to show and sell your artwork?
Pear using chiaroscuro effect
Oil 11x14 on canvas: An oil still life study from a book by Gregg Kruetz of a pear. I like the chiaroscuro effect in a lot of his work and thought I'd give it a try. First attempt at a chiaroscuro style painting (contrast of dark and light) and I did this one quickly in about and hour. I enjoy trying different techniques and subjects and hope to do more of these with fruit. I need to darken some of the shadows and diffuse some of the edges but just haven't gotten around to it yet. Used a palette knife to rough up the paint on the table edge and it came out pretty cool. I've always admired great still life paintings and the way they capture the atmosphere around and behind the subject matter.
Sunflower painting in oil
Oil 11x14 on canvas: Always wanted to try a sunflower painting and enjoyed painting this one. Will probably paint more as I like the bright colors and the complementary of the blue and orange. This is my second flower painting and florals are much more challenging than I thought they would be. My first floral was the large gardenia. Took this painting to a open air market for sale yesterday but had a lot of lookers but no buyers. I enjoy meeting folks at these kind of events. My wife does floral paintings using a stucco base on top of canvas and uses bright colors.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Large Gardenia
Oil 40x36 Painted a large version of the gardenia that I did a study of a few weeks ago and posted here. Learned a lot from the study and tried to take advice from the forum. This is a commission for someone who had all their artwork stolen from their home a few months ago. I also painted a large landscape scene for them as well.
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SOLD
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Big Tree
Oil on canvas 18x24. This is a large tree in my neighborhood that the developer left on a lot by itself and put a nice brick fence around it. It must be 150-200 years old. I improvised the surroundings but it's not far off from the landscape around Arlington. There are several of these large oak trees around the town and I always wonder what all they've seen over the years! I have this picture on Etsy for sale!
http://www.etsy.com/listing/48348154/country-roads
http://www.etsy.com/listing/48348154/country-roads
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Peaceful Road
Friday, May 14, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Papa
My grandfather loved to sell watermelons and decided to paint this portrait with the green and white shirt just like the mellons he used to sell. He was a share cropper in Medon Tn. and sold watermelons to make money on the side. I signed the picture and put a watermelon with my signature. He is greatly missed and was a very good man.
Mountain stream
Jenna portrait
Cotton field
This is an old picture I did many years ago of the area that I grew up. This is around Medon Tn, a very small town. I did this picture that I painted in a small community college class with Norma Dennison as my teacher. She was a great teacher and I learned so much from her. I learned all of the basics of oil painting from her and am very grateful.
Abby portrait
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Commission for a friend I worked with 43 years ago.
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16x20 pastel: Here's a portrait of Jenna another one of my daughters. Have done several of this same picture in pastel and oil. I h...