We have finally had some sun here in Minnesota! Spring is slowly starting to reveal itself. Not weeks of sunny days mind you, and very few May flowers, but the change is underway. Let the fair-weather plein air painting season begin I lucked out with a day off during the week. I couldn’t wait another [...]
What’s on your easel Wednesday
Light from above is just plain cool! When I was a student at The Atelier, I was fascinated with the effect that light from the skylight in the main drawing room had on the form of whatever we were drawing. Nuances were much more pronounced. You could really see the fullness of a curve. Things [...]
Let there be light More alla prima work this week, but this time I did something a little bit different. The above painting was done using 2 different light sources. One, a standard 100-watt incandescent bulb. The other, a 60-watt incandescent with a subtle blue theater-light filter. I attached the standard unfiltered lamp to the [...]
I’m taking a break from the Vessels still life to play around with some alla prima painting. Alla prima is a method of painting where the image is completed while the paint is still wet. An alla prima painting is typically started and finished in one painting session. I have also seen the term applied [...]
Because the one thing I get asked the most by anyone who knows I paint is, ” What are you working on?” And because I always love to talk about what I’m working on. And because hey, it is Wednesday… Time to get down to some real painting! Last week was all about the lay-in: what’s great about starting [...]
Because the one thing I get asked the most by anyone who knows I paint is, ” What are you working on?” And because I always love to talk about what I’m working on. And because hey, it is Wednesday… Ah, the lay-in… The painting begins. How can a single canvas hold so many possibilities? The lay-in is the [...]
Because the one thing I get asked the most by anyone who knows I paint is, ” What are you working on?” And because I always love to talk about what I’m working on. And because hey, it is Wednesday… This is the charcoal drawing for my newest still life, a collection of objects–all with different [...]
