Gifted Sketch
2021-05-24
I was painting yesterday en plein air at Robert Gross Park and while leaving I was gifted this drawing of me painting by a young woman artist who was sketching at the park! Thank you!Continue Reading
Dot Intersection
2021-05-22
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
Gross Park
2021-05-03
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
Final Palm Avenue
2021-04-30
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
Return to Plein Air – Cityscape
2021-03-26
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
Keep painting until it looks good
2020-07-02
If there is one thing I have learned from making abstract art, it is to keep painting over the bad paintings until they are good.Continue Reading
Not a Portrait part 2
2020-07-02
I decided to take the portrait that “looked better upside-down” and take it even further in that direction. I blocked out some areas with a thin layer of gesso and gave the painting more color and texture.Continue Reading