Saturday, March 29, 2014

Impressionist Landscape

This work is in oil on hard-stock paper primed with tinted acrylic gesso. The broken color in the style of the impressionist painters Joaquin Zorolla and Frank Benson.

Dividing the Catch. Zambezi River c. 1931.

Monday, March 24, 2014

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Marina Ride

This is a 16x12" gouache on Canson Watercolor paper. This particular cold press paper has a fine texture suitable for detailed work.

Free Ride

Monday, March 17, 2014

Gouache on Gesso

This is a gouache and prismacolor painting on cardboard stock.

Unexpected Storm

Monday, March 10, 2014

Unfinished Villa

An 8.5x11" gouache on watercolor paper.

Somewhere in Tuscany

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Oil Painting on Archival Paper

This 7.5x6" artwork was painted with Classic Artist Oils and Daler Rowney Georgian 1783. The scene is from a street in a coastal city somewhere in South America.



Store in Main Street

The sketch had to be somewhat detailed to preserve the character of the scene.


Thursday, February 27, 2014

A More Complex Scene

In this 9x12" lake scene the challenger was to achieve appropriate color gradation of the background and working with soft, lost and hard edges.

Lake Sunshine

To prevent the scene from become utterly generic I drew a more detailed sketch.


Monday, February 24, 2014

More landscapes from Imagination

This was done in gouache on a 11x7.5" watercolor paper.


Lofty Mountains

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Evocative of Spain

An imaginary town in mixed media. Created with gouache, airbrush, and Prismacolor  Premier color pencils.

Town Impossible


Winter landscape. Oil on paper.