Controlling the Values

To give the impression of full sunlight, values must be carefully balanced.

Noon at the Edge of Town

Impressionist Landscape

An example of a quasi-abstract painting. Media: Gouache on watercolor paper.

Sunset Abstraction

Working On Installing The Walney Wind Farm

Barges and ships working on an offshore wind farm.

Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, UK

Gray-scale Watercolor Painting

This is the result of a short demonstration painting for the Vista Painting Club. I used  the sketch in my previous blog entry as a reference.

Dusk

Another Treeline Scene

The compression of values in the shadow area made it interesting to paint. Gouache on watercolor paper.

Sunset by the Meadows

Forest Landscape in Oil

This is a 20x16 in. painting, using oil on 100% polyester canvas.

Duck in the Pond

Color Sketch

Another gouache painting on mixed-media paper. This is a horizontal composition suggesting restfulness.

Little Red Barn

Charcoal Sketch on Gesso-Primed Paper

In this sketch I used cold-press watercolor paper coated with a light coat of gesso to pull some texture in the drawing.

The Mill and the Storm

Sketching with Abstract Shapes

In this kind of sketching the form emerges from the careful placement of abstract shapes.

Rainy Day Shopping

3-Colors Notans

Some examples of 3-color notans as explorations for a painting. Gouache on watercolor paper.

Scranton, Pennsylvania

I have included the notan [with notes] of the painting so you could have an idea of my thinking process in balancing the composition. Squinting helps you see how closely I followed the notan.

Gouache on watercolor paper. Historical painting based on the development of Scranton area, circa 1959.