8" x 10" oil on linen
A little still life I did over the weekend. The flower was from my yard.

10"x 12" oil on linen

A gas works park sketch

big red ruby
18" x 24"
oil on canvas

Painted sketches from this morning.
I scanned these in at a higher resolution so there not so small.

gouache on toned paper

Aaron
oil on linen
10" x 12"

Was digging through some older art and found this one. I remember finding the model and pose so unsurprising at the time, then I looked across the room to see my friend Aaron Coberly getting down with the brushes. Don't think he looked over at me once he was so focused. Go check out his stuff if you haven't. This Dude is one to watch.

A few from this morning.

Gouache on toned paper

I took a picture with my phone after every 25 minute break.
Wish I had more time, felt rushed on this one. The 3 hours just flew by. Didn't go nearly thick enough in spots that I wanted and the hands and feet got a rush job. Bah!

blue kimono
16"x 20"

16" x 20" oil

CREMNITZ WHITE.


So the last 2 paintings I've posted are with the use of Cremnitz white. Its a different beast than Titanium. In the first painting I was in love with stuff, and this last one, well I chalk it up to not having a good painting night. You need so much of this stuff for a painting. You can go darker in valve very easy and get smooth edges like nobodies business. But you really have to use a lot of white and a lot less color paint for lighter valves.
I felt out of control with it on this painting. But that's me not the paint. It's fun using due to it making me think differently about mixing and applying paint. I'm excited to keep using it for a while, Who knows I might try putting both whites on the palette capitalizing on their strengths.

One from last night
oil 24' x 20"

Haven't gone life drawing with my gouache in a few months, but I did manage to get out of bed this morning and go. These 2 or the only decent ones I got.

Homage to Nicolai Fechin.

a quick little gouache of Fechin's Indian girl Portrait

I took a picture every 25 minutes during the model break. Not the greatest photos but you get the point.

20" x 16"

14"x 11" oil

When I painted this, right afterwards while cleaning up I decided to scrape this painting with a palette knife. Only then did I start to see something.

Another portrait from an open painting session. I was playing around with the palette knife and such. Parts of it I like and other parts not so much .

24" x 20"
oil

16"x20" oil

10" x 12 oilWith so many color choices of paint out there, how many are just fools gold?

This is the first painting using my new choice of colors. I've been using the same base color palette for quite a long time. I've added and taken away colors for sure, but I always ended up roughly using the same ones. To understand color better and call attention to the mixing habits I've gotten over the years I decided to simplify.

I didn't want a palette so limited that you could tell . So I went for the biggest bang for the buck or the least amount of colors with maximum amount of range.

I could've just used one primary each but decided on a warm and cool of each primary, plus black and white.

My new choice of oil colors

Titanium White
Cad Yellow light
Cad Yellow Med
Cad Red Light
Quinacridone Red
Phthalo Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Ivory Black

I don't know how long this little experiment will last, but I do know I will learn something. Hell I already miss my green.

Early morning Plein Air
11"x14" oil

This was sunday morning out in the industrial part of Seattle. I've been inspired to get up after checking out the Early Bird Painters Blog.
some really sweet stuff over there.

11" x 14" oil

I didn't use any blues and stayed away from the burnt umber on my palette for this one.
16"x 20"

Early morning painting of a cement factory. I started it outside, blocking in the big shapes and color. Finished it this morning from a photo I took while I was painting. The factory looked like a cathedral all lite up.

18"x 24" 0il

from a Monday night open session
Oil 24"x 20"

3 from this morning.
gouache on toned paper

wishing the poses where longer than just twenty minutes. Could get more down, more accurate. but I suppose half the fun is feeling rushed.

During the breaks at a figure drawing session I go to, I busted out these little studies.
gouache on toned paper.

Went figure drawing this morning. The last one of the year. This was the first 20 minute pose of the session. It was the only one that turned out halfway decent. Thank god there is next year.

It was cold and late rainy morning. A rather quick gouache sketch from my car. I was so hungry that I had to wrap it up and get something to eat.

20 minute Gouache head sketches.

I have 2 funny little pieces in a group show at the Blvd art gallery. It's a group show titled Good verses Evil. Each artist does one painting for each. It was a quick fun thing to do.
check the link
the opening is Friday Dec 14th.





pie is good
4.85"x4.85"
gouache on paper

evil bitch
4.85"x4.85"
goauche on paper

this sketch was done in my car. A very cold clear late fall day.
Gouache on toned paper.

Did this little plein air painting this past weekend morning.
A small part of a cement factory.
8x10 oil

Goauche on toned paper.

2 figure studies, same pose. I just moved around the room.
Both are 10x12 oil

Train Bridge 14x11 oil

Did these both tonight at an open painting session.
the one on the bottom I did first. Then I moved to the other side of the room. The lighting was tough.

I painted this one for my little niece Stevie. she turned one last week. Yay!
24"x18" oils

Painted this sketch from a roof top in LA. It was stupid hot. Too hot to paint. I planned on doing more painting but seeing how hot it was my desire to paint was cooked away.