Artist Studio
Today in my class I was demonstrating several representational rural scenes that featured the technique of splatter and I told them that I would post several pieces I finished a few years back in my “Creation Series.” Here goes I hope you get what I was doing which was trying to express the explosions of energy in the early years of planet earth.
When starting a painting that is fairly abstract and you are trying to express a feeling, you must design the painting and design the white shape. I do it by using a sketch book and 6B pencil taking care to really make the shape work and have movement before committing to the painting process. It does let the you be freer and more expressive with your painting.
All you need to know about using a small rigger and round brush for painting wonderful trees.
So today I started with this 16 x 20 oil painting and my goal was to get a little closer to a well painted expressive sky and I think it turned out fairly well although I still have a long way to go. I then worked on two paintings for a commission I have been
22 x 30 Acrylic on Rives BFK Paper. I painted this today with the only goal of doing an interesting textural abstraction and ended up with something that is evocative of a landscape without the subject matter. The colors are definitely a remembrance of deserts and lakes, some of my memory and some from pure
So following up on the jumpstart idea, I decided to paint an acrylic figure, on paper, in a very bold expressive fashion. I had no reference photo so I just invented the figure and I am sure it is not really factual but it did end up looking porcelain and stately and these were my
This new video is about scraping, lifting and splatters, It has lots of other ideas like getting things dark but my hope was to shine a little light on scrapes. I plan to have another of these tutorial videos next week. Let me know what you think. Don’t forget to subscribe to my channel at
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This weeks video on preserving the white shape, I hope you like. Remember to let me know if you have ideas for a video. Go to facebook and like me and youtube to subscribe to my channel
I have been working on color and texture impressions of landscapes from my recent trips, dating back to my several trips to Botswana, most of these expressions are from the point of view of looking down from and airplane. I am in love with desert textures and colors and find the dry ancient contours to
40 x 30 Acrylic “Rockies on Fire” After a recent trip to Colorado this painting just sort of happened as an impression of the heat and fire that was all over the mountains. Fires were springing up from North of Denver to Pueblo. I try to paint abstract landscapes without a plan but just evolve
These three images hang horizontally left to right and it really is just a color exercise. It is based on Hans Hoffman’s theory that you can create three dimensional reality on a two dimension surface with color. The strong colors seem to float in front of the Naples Yellow ground. I hope you like them.
Here is a recent Acrylic that follows in my series of paintings that are conceptually about looking down on the beautiful “American Landscape”. Really it could be any landscape but I feel like this one is one of those Texas Gulf Coast shorelines. The painting is on canvas and measures at 16 x 16