Working with shadows is one of my favorite challenges.
I didn't think up painting cosmetic still lifes, lots of people do them, but they are very fun to paint! And the names of the colors, you can't make names like that up!
Working on a portrait for today. Ben is a pleasure to know. He's a very talented and creative young guy.
Clouds in the Columbia River Gorge.
This is a crabapple. I liked the leaves and the shadow on this one.
These apples are from a friend's tree. I think that's the only way you get the leaves with the apples. They are some really small variety of apple. They were a challenge to paint, because the red is so deep, it's almost wine colored.
I'm still working with the idea of keeping the the lights in the light and the darks in the dark on this one.
Having fun experimenting with colors and shadows on local landscape forms.
These red pears seem to be in season now, they are in all the grocery stores. Hood River Valley is a significant pear producing region.
This painting is a demo from a class that I taught today. I liked the way it turned out, with the minimum of brush strokes to define the form. I was trying to count the brushstrokes, a max of 20 brushstrokes per form.
This was a 3 hour painting session with a live model.Trying to stay with neutral colors for this one.
