New Sunset Paintings

 

It's been a while since my last blog post. Nowadays it seems like I post a lot of new work on facebook since it is so easy to post there. Feel free to look me up there.

Below are some new Imaginary sunset paintings. I've been having fun working on developing painting from my imagination. It's great practice and I'm learning some new things about myself.

 

 A Place to View The Sunset
Oil 18" x 24"

 

Sunset Pond
Oil 16" x 20"

 

The Finale
Oil 24" x 36"

 

Sunset Light
Oil 14" x 18"

 (Small Preliminary for the larger one below)

 

Sunset Light
Oil 30" x 36"

Into The Light
Oil 14" x 18"

Fall Grove

Fall Grove
Oil 22" x 28"

This painting is done almost entirely with palette knife. The only thing that isn't is the first layer of washes.

More Nude Gestures

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

Out of Shadow

Out of Shadow
oil / canvas
10" x 14"


This painting was done with about 99% palette knife. I wanted to play with the palette knife and experiment with color in this piece.

Nude Studies

Nude
Oil / Canvas
10" x 20"







Seated Nude Study
Oil / Canvas
8"x10"

Hills and Snow

Hills and Snow
24" x 48"
Oil on Panel

For this piece I wanted to capture an interesting design and a sense of the light, texture, and depth of the space. I painted on Panel, which I thought helped build the type of textures I wanted. I layered paint on switching between palette knife and brush.

Details:

Sunflowers

Sunflowers
Oil / Canvas
14" x 18"

Melting Ice

Melting Ice
Oil / Canvas
12" x 12"

Still Life paintings

Red, White, Green
Oil / Canvas
8" x 10"









Sunflower
Oil / Canvas
9" x 12"

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.

Nude Studies

8x10 Oil / Canvas






8x10 Oil / Canvas





9x12 Oil / Canvas

Jane

Jane
Oil / Canvas
9" x 12"

Jack Painting Demo

To start, I made a rough drawing. Making dry brushed marks that are not fully committed to the location of shapes and edges. You can "sneak up" on more accurate marks later this way.

Blocking in the shadow shapes here. This is where the more committed drawing takes place. It's thin so there's still room for adjustments. Observing how the shadows are connected here.

Blocking in the background. The background is real simple, so why not get it all in first.

The full block in. Getting in all the basic planes.

From here you can move in for the placement of the features. Things still aren't fully committed yet to their location and size relationships. That's the great thing about oils, you can take a brush and move it around on the surface until it's in the right spot.

I haven't placed in my darkest darks or dark accents in the face yet or even my brightest brights in it either. I wanted the in between values placed first and then carve out the high and low values.

Jack
Oil / Canvas
9"x12"

The final painting. From the block in to the final you can see what was adjusted how the darks and lights were added to define the form more.

I used the palette knife to sharpen some edges. Generally, I'll work from thin to thick in paint and soft to crisp in edges. Although, it doesn't matter how you start your edges, you could start with all sharp and then soften them in the end.

Figure Study

Figure Study
Oil / Canvas
8" x 16"

Been enjoying painting monochromes lately. I usually use a venetian red color mixture but I've been liking Permanent Red Deep with Raw Sienna color mixture for these.

Monochrome Portrait

Oil / Canvas
14" x 11"

This portrait came from an old photograph I found. I love old photos, the characters and expressions in them I find very interesting. This guys wild hair and piercing expression caught my eye.

Portrait Sketch

New Portrait Painting

Oil / Canvas
24" x 30"

Last Light

Last Light
Oil on Canvas
16 by 20"

Portrait Study - Kauffman

Kauffman
Oil / Canvas
18 by 24"