I used some reference photos to finish this painting. I’m not an expert on cars and in the end I realized I had changed the model of the main car. The trim and the brake lights are different from my location photo. Darn.Continue Reading
I finished the painting of a building at Olive Park in Burbank. I do not know the official name of it. I originally started this en plein air and completed it using my cloisonnist style with some impressionism in the background.Continue Reading
I created the original painting at Olive Park in the afternoon. As I was finishing it up, it began to look more like a nighttime portrait so I continued with that theme.Continue Reading
I began this painting en plein air for the first layer and then later put in the dot layer. I think for the initial layers I will stick with warm or cool colors and then go with the opposite for the dots. This painting is a mixture and it isContinue Reading
Painted at Gross Park in Burbank. Thank you to my daughter for telling me to be patient, it turned out good in the end!Continue Reading
I decided the palette knife treatment needed another layer so I did a pointillism technique on top. This would be a third “layer” to this painting. The first was a complementary color layer. I am beginning to think the dots need to go directly on the first layer. I willContinue Reading
Last week I painted this live (en plein air) while in downtown Burbank on San Fernando Blvd. It was a nice, sunny day before the weather really started to heat up, regardless my arms got sunburnt. It was good practice and nice to be outside painting again.Continue Reading
I did a plein air painting of the theater in downtown Burbank a few months ago. It was very rough and sat unfinished on the easel. Usually I would study a photo from the scene to sharpen up the painting and help the composition, but I neglected to take aContinue Reading
Here is the finished painting of the transit station I started last month. The building is painted green and is designed in an art deco style. Inside there are vending machines and bike lockers.Continue Reading
I snuck out to the downtown transit station to paint today. The station is done in bright green art deco style. There were more pidgeons than people passing through today.Continue Reading