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Autumn Pond Scene

2010-10-13T19:01:00.000-07:00

Painted with Cennini's Autumn Blaze Palette, Optical Grays, Sunshine and Sky ...with a little Maroger's Medium.

Autumn Pond Scene, 10 x 20 on linen panel.

Summer on the Pond

2010-07-12T09:52:00.001-07:00

The first in the Dragonfly series; oil on gesso panel.

Flame Skimmer, 5x7

Splashing Goose

2010-04-29T10:12:00.000-07:00

The last in the "Splashing Geese" series. The palette is the same: Cobalt Green, Van Dyke Brown, Flake White with Optical White, and Ivory Black, with touches of Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna and Cobalt Violet Pink.

10 x 20 on linen panel.

Take-Off

2010-02-14T16:43:00.000-08:00

Back at it...I've been playing around a little with the Studio Products' special order Value 5 and Value 6 paint. This is done with V5 & V6 plus Van Dyke Brown, Cobalt Green, Cad. Yellow, a touch each of Cobalt Blue and Cobalt Violet, Ivory Black and Flake White with Zinc on a RealGesso panel. I'm quite impressed with the Value paints and hope they continue and are added to the Cennini Paint line.

Take-Off

Take-Off III

Early Autumn

2009-10-26T14:46:00.000-07:00

A loose copy of Ch'ien Hsüan's Early Autumn, Yiian Dynasty
watercolor on rice paper, 24" x 13"

2009-06-17T15:59:00.000-07:00

"Happy Birthday, Daddy!"

Happy Valentine's Day!

2009-02-14T00:13:00.000-08:00

Valentine Swans, scratchboard 8.5" x 5.5"

Some more scratch boards:

January 2009

2009-01-19T20:01:00.000-08:00

I sat before my dime store mirror and painted. Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Red Light, Flake/Zinc White and Ivory Black - (initially sketched in with Van Dyke Brown using Studio Products' Underpainting Medium). By the way, Studio Products' Van Dyke Brown is one of my must-have tubes. Beautiful for underpainting and for mixing to create a neutral.

Self Portrait, oil on linen panel 8" x 6"

Last year's self portrait.

Last Year . . .

2008-11-05T00:15:00.000-08:00

With a broken ankle (yes, I fractured it, crushed it, chipped the tibia-fibia — it's now a "bionic" ankle that will outlast my flesh and bones) ...well, with this ankle, I won't be able to get upstairs to my studio for awhile. So, I went through some of my old computer files of paintings and found three I really was pleased with from last year. They capture 2007 for me, a year of growing and rivers. All three were painted on RealGesso Panels, worked up from a rough lay-in using, again, Studio Products' Underpainting Medium and finishing with their Olio Verde, a truly smooth handling and elegant medium.

Onions, oil on gesso panel 11" x 14"

Garden Vegetables, oil on gesso panel 11" x 14"

Steelheads, oil on gesso panel 11" x 14"

Young Buck

2008-10-13T22:22:00.002-07:00

Early this summer, a young spike buck came to forage in my flower garden and sleep in the pasture by our barn. Several times when I walked the long drive to get the mail or when I went out to water the garden, there he'd be...standing innocently by my rose bushes - bushes that never had a bloom past a bud.

Using a foundation base of Van Dyke Brown, I created this painting using only Studio Products' Underpainting Medium throughout. This medium dries quickly and I was able to keep painting, sometimes wet-on-wet, sometimes painting over already dried paint.

Young Buck, oil on canvas 14" x 18"

Copperpoint

2008-10-13T16:04:00.001-07:00

To begin a metalpoint, in this case a copperpoint, I make a rough drawing the same size as I want my copperpoint, positioned on the paper exactly how it will be on the finished paper or board. I then use a method of sight-sizing to get a basic outline of my drawing on the board or place a few marks as guides. For this metalpoint I used a gesso board from RealGesso and the Silverpoint Tool from Studio Products. The tool comes with both a silver and copper point.

This is a Black Crowned Heron from Ladd Marsh in Northeast Oregon.

Black Crowned Heron, copperpoint on gesso board 6" X 8"