Cloud VIII

Oil on gessoed ragboard, 4" x 5.5" SOLD

Cloud VII

Oil on gessosed card, 4" x 4"

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Cloud VI

Oil on gessoed board, 4" x 4" SOLD

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Cloud V

Oil on Canvas, 4" x 6" click here to bid SOLD

This is another in the series. I am really caught up in doing this, and

can't seem to stop painting clouds. I'm hoping to follow this up with

full landscapes. I'll just have to see what happens.

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Cloud IV

Acrylic on Gessoed board, 4" x 4"
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Cloud III

Acrylic on Gessoboard, 4" x 4"

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For this painting I used the new Interactive Acrylics,

and was pleasantly surprised. They come with several

different bottles of mediums. One that keeps the paint

wet longer, another that makes the paint dry really

fast, in case you want to use it as an underpainting.

It was easy to apply, brushed out nicely, had lovely

colors, and even blended easily, with the ability to

create soft edges. All in all, a very nice product. You

should try it.

Cloud II

Oil on panel, 5" x 5", click here to bid

I think this is becoming a series. I love imagining the

sky. When I arrive at something that seems "real" to me,

it is so exciting. As though I am really "seeing" it.

Cloud

Oil on Gessoboard, 4" x 4", click here to bid SOLD

After all this snow, gray skies, cabin fever, S.A.D.,

etc., etc., I just decided I had to paint myself a cloud

that would remind me that spring and summer will

really be here some day. As a matter of fact, I have

daffodils sticking out of the ground in my front yard-

only right now they're buried by three feet of snow.

It's a good thing they are hardy plants!

This picture just makes me feel happy, and I hope it

helps your mood too.

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Thunderheads

Gouache sketch on blue paper, 3" x 4"

I have been working hard on several paintings that are more

complicated . They require a lot of concentration, but leave

me little time for daily painting right now. I don't want to go back

on my resolution, but being preoccupied with painting is the point

here, I think(?). Not a daily race to see who can publish first.

So, I've posted one in the series of small landscape sketches in gouache

that I have been doing all along. Gouache fascinates me, because you

can use it either like watercolor (transparently), or opaquely, the way

it is really meant to be used. I like the leeway that gives me to experiment.

This particular study doesn't have any transparency in it, and was painted

fairly thickly, kind of like an oil painting. Anyone who loves oil painting
would love working in gouache!

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The Vision

6 1/2" x 9", SOLD
Oil over prepared underpainting
(unfinished piece)

I am happy about the direction in which this
is going. It is a variation on a pose that I have
used before, and with which I am endlessly
fascinated. In this version the red dominates.

The Beautiful Parakeet

3 1/8" x 4 7/8" - Pastel Pencil on Wallis Sanded Paper

I am working on some more complicated

paintings right now, and cannot be a "painter"

as such, every day. As everyone knows who

uses them, we paint when we use pastels.

I am very fond of this little drawing. I'm thinking

of going to the pet store - I asked them if I

could photograph their birds and they said

"yes" - to get some more material.

Monotype of Spring in the Blue Ridge

Oil Color Monotype, 5" x 4" , painted on zinc, transferred to

Rives BFK using an etching press. click here to bid

This is a small monotype done in a loose fashion. I love this tech-

nique, and wish I had more time to do them. They're tricky though-

for every five that you do, maybe one or two are keepers... Although

this isn't my favorite - I've done so many - it has a nice feel

to it, I think.

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Drawing of Donald Copper

6.5" x 8.5" , Graphite on Drawing Paper,

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Figure Sketch in the Studio

Oil on Belgian Linen monted on board,

5.75" x 7.5" , click here to bid

This was really fun to do. It started out as a quick

sketch in mechanical pencil on some linen canvas

that I had. Then I coated that with polymer medium

with a little turquoise acrylic in it.
Then I painted in the light areas with a little white

and yellow oil paint.

After letting it dry over night I glazed it with Liquin

and Gamblin's Transparent Earth red, and it was all

stream-of-conciousness after that. I know it is loose,

but I rather like the effect, particularly the balance of

the bright turquoise blue and the bright spotlight.

Unfortunately, the beautiful effects of the paint don't

really come across in this photograph. Belgian linen

has a tighly-woven, exquisite surface that is unlike

anything else. It gives a delicate quality to your paint

passages that you sure can't see here! Just try to imagine

it....

Monotype of a New Orleans Fountain Statue

Oil Color Monotype, painted on zinc, printed on BFK

Rives printmaking paper using an etching press

4.5" x 5"

NFS

I didn't have the time to do anything new today, so

this is my offering. I've always been fond of this.

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Sunset Sketch

Oil on Gessoed Wood, 5" x 7.5", click here to bid

I photographed this right after I finished painting it, so that explains

the glare. This was really fun to do. I used a different medium today,

which was essentially just linseed oil with some solvent in it. I usually

use Winsor & Newton's Liquin, and have for years, because it is such

a good glazing medium. But, this is a very frank sketch, so something

where you can just push and smear the paint around is best for

something like this. It's really fun.

Another good sketching medium is Dorland's wax medium. It also has

the advantage that it dries almost instantly, and, it can be buffed up

with a cloth when it's dry. How weird is that? Mix a little Liquin with it

to make it more fluid, and it's really great. By itself it's good for palette

knife work.

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Christina

Oil on Board, 7 " x 9.5 ", SOLD

I have been working on this image over a series of

years, actually, and am glad to have finally resolved

it. The contrast of her almost-black hair against the

turqoise background is something that has always

obsessed me, but I couldn't rectify the colors in her

face with the rest of the painting. I finally decided to

just "go with the flow", and I'm pretty happy with the

results, which aren't really true to life due to my

camera. Her face is really more colorful than this.