Last Light

Just finished this. I love doing this time of day. It's amazing how many colors there are in the sky when the sun is about to set. Greens, blues, purples, pinks, reds, yellows, they are all there in some variation or another. Next time you witness a sunset such as this, all clear, no clouds, look down on the ground then up and the first image you see it will tell you the color! Sometimes greens, sometimes yellows, sometimes purples, you will be surprised how many different colors there are up in the sky!

Across the Waters

It has been a few days since my last post.  Everyone in my family, including myself, was sick, well we are still sick but today I felt already better and wanted to finish this painting which I started on Monday.  The photo is not the best as it is raining and had to take it on the easel. I'll change it once I take one outside when the sun shines! I already send the image to one of my galleries and they can't wait to get it. I would like to do two more of this composition, one early foggy morning, the other an early sunset. It will make a nice grouping.

The composition is from sketches I did on the Intercoastal north of Vero Beach. The scene is looking west.

"Across the Waters", oil on gesso panel, 8 x 8.

Spinone

I did some pen drawings this morning so I have ideas on a composition. I plan to donate a couple of my dog portraits, oils, to the Spinone Italiano Annual Auction during their Specialty show at the end of April. Hopefully I'll start on something this afternoon.

Here are a couple of pages from the sketchbook, I am pleased with a few...my boy is the model on some :-)

Blessed Land

I really enjoyed painting this little one. Lot's of great passages that can only be appreciated in person. One thing that I really enjoy about using a knife is the way you can come so close to abstracting the landscape and yet still representational. I am certain that I will do a larger version of this one! Maybe a sailboat somewhere in the distance?

Oil on gesso panel, 6 x 6.

Last Light

This is another painting for my Florida series. I love doing sunsets, especially the ones that have almost ended. The colors are so much fun. Very few values but lots of changes of temperature throughout the sky and land. This is from a study I did years ago on my way through Jacksonville. My Macbook died officially last night, we are very sad, and now I can only refer to my drawings. I"ll take a picture of one of the pages out of my sketch book so you can see what it is like.

I did this on a gesso panel, as you can see from the first image I layered lots of color with a knife, never used a brush for the first notes. This makes it more challenging because the paint just slides around, but when you get it it gives a wonderful result. Basically all the passages are "accidents", the trick is to now which ones are the keepers. There is no second chances when you have some much paint! Forgive my photo skills. It is raining today so I can't take pictures outside. This is just on the easel, not a lot of light. I will post the final image on my website with the prices when ready.

Oil on gesso panel, 8 x 6.

Heading Out

This is the second painting I finished this week. Both I will donate to My son's school for their annual fundraiser. It was a challenge using all the grays. I tried to leave the sky very soft with little knife work (impasto) so it would give it a ethereal feeling. The water highlights instead I loaded up the knife quite a bit. I think I would like to do a similar piece with this early morning misty light but instead of a boat I will use flying geese. Let's see how that will look.