More Nude Gestures

Some more Nude Gestures. I really enjoy painting in monochrome. I can really focus on mark making and drawing this way.

Nude Gesture

24" x 12"
Oil / Canvas


I really enjoy doing gestural sketches with monochromatic oils. It's a challenge to get a sense of the shape and form and to say something about the energy of the pose.

Nude Studies

Nude
Oil / Canvas
10" x 20"







Seated Nude Study
Oil / Canvas
8"x10"

Building Blocks

Building Blocks
Oil / Canvas
11" x 14"

Cold Steel

Cold Steel
9" x 12"
Oil / Canvas

Worked with "cool" light in this painting. So I thought the title Cold Steel was a fitting title with the cold color look in the painting.



Here's the beginning of the painting. Just making indications of where things are.

Victor Plein Air

Back Home now from the Victor, CO plein air event. The Opening for the show is this Friday. I did 9 paintings while I was there. I decided to camp out at a reservoir nearby and did 5 paintings the first full day I had there. The next day was really windy but I managed to get a couple done. Upon returning to my campsite that day I found that my tent, and everything in it was stolen, which included, my sleeping bag, air mattress, clothes, and the five paintings I did the day before!

It was rough! However, I managed to paint two more the next day. Below is what survived. I at least have my three for the show. It certainly has been the roughest plein air event I've done but it was fun painting these mines.


Pieces of the Past
Oil 12" x 16"

I did this painting the morning after my stuff got stolen.



Rustic Barn
9" x 16" Oil

I went back and repainted this scene. The one that was stolen was a little larger but I really liked the composition and just had to redo it.



Vindicator Mine
12" x 16" Oil

The mines in Victor are so interesting. So much texture and character.


Mine Debris
10" x 12" Oil

Plein Air Paintings

Below are a couple Plein Air Paintings I did Yesterday. I did a total of four. These are two of the four.


To Mountain Heights
Oil / Canvas 14" x 14"




Cottonwood Pass
Oil / Canvas
8" x 12"

Portrait Sketch

Colorado Plein Air Paintings

Edge of Shadow 8x10 oil



Summer Solstice 8x10 oil



Reaching 8x10 oil



Mountain Country 8x10 oil



Canyon Shapes 8x 10 oil



Above Green Fields 8x10 oil

New Plein AIr Paintings

Since I moved to my new home in Salida I've been painting Plein Air every morning.
Below is some of what I've been working on...



Window to the Falls - 6 x 8

Tree Blossoms - 6 x 12

River Greens - 8 x 10

Rocky Mountain Farm - 8 x 10

Mountain View - 8 x 10

Forest Expressions - 6 x 8

Earth and Stone - 14 x 18

Down it Comes - 6 x 8

Creek Timber - 8 x 10

Creek Flow - 6 x 9

Chalk Cliff Morning - 8 x 10

Boulder and Aspens - 8 x 10

Aspen Grove - 8 x 10

Arkansas River Summer - 14 x 18

Agnes Vaille Falls - 11 x 14

Arkansas River

Arkansas River
Oil 6" x 8"

A little study I did recently. I'm thinking of making a larger one of this...

Portrait Study - Kauffman

Kauffman
Oil / Canvas
18 by 24"

Portrait Painting

Justin
Oil - 11 by 14"

A portrait I did recently of my friend Justin.
He has an interesting job chasing Tornadoes!

Portrait Study

Oil 14 by 18"

Pencil Sketch

Up the Hill

Up the Hill
Oil 9 by 12"

Portrait Pencil Sketch

Couple Plein Air Sketches from today

The first one 7" by 12"

The second quick 6" by 8"

Self Portait Pencil Sketch

Alice

Oil- 11 by 14"

Below is the preliminary sketch I did before the painting...

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