Sometimes I do my “homework”. Studio work. Planning. Educated guesswork. I looked through my records of paintings sold at the Silver City Store over the past 7 years or so. I made lists by subject matter and lists by size. I averaged the total number of paintings sold, and made a new list of which […]
More Oil Paintings in Progress
Lest you think I only paint eggs these days, here is a look at other oil paintings in progress. The way I keep myself glued to the easel is by audio books – The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls was captivating and pushed me through many paintings last week. Poppies, always need poppy paintings. And I love Dutch […]
Painting at Home
Happy Birthday, Ruthie! (Or is it on the 25th? Will I ask this question the rest of our lives?) Isn’t “Painting at Home” a weird title for someone with a home-based studio? My painting studio is cold and dark on a rainy day. Sometimes I paint there anyway, using an Ott light and a propane […]
Repainting Mineral King and Prudence
Happy Birthday, Gordon!! The big Mineral King mural in Exeter has faded. Yellow fades the quickest, so gray becomes purple, tan becomes gray which then fades to lavender, and green becomes blue. The mural colors were like this when I finished it after 52 days of painting in 2009. Now the colors look this way: It […]
3 Mineral King Paintings in Progress
I’ve been inching along (more accurately, “layering along”) on the 3 largish Mineral King paintings. With colder temperatures, the oil just isn’t drying quickly enough to make much progess. Here is Farewell Gap with a few more layers. Here is White Chief with a few more layers: And here is Sawtooth with a new sky:
One More Mineral King Oil Painting?
These Mineral King oil paintings seem to be reproducing while I have my back turned. Maybe I should have left the light on, or maybe I should not have taken that road trip. Ha. Don’t I wish they just reproduced on their own. This is the one that was on my easel when I started […]
The Last Oil Paintings in Mineral King
“Last” is one of those many faceted English words. Here it means the most recent Farewell Gap, Mineral King oil paintings. There are more depictions of Farewell Gap, on murals, in pencil and in 2 coloring books (drawn in ink). However, in the interest of relieving monotony, I won’t continue this theme in other media. (Did […]
And Yet More Mineral King Oil Paintings
Tomorrow we will take a final look at the Farewell Gap paintings. Save
Still Oil Painting in Mineral King
Not really oil painting in Mineral King – oil paintings of Mineral King, painted in Three Rivers. As a studio artist, I work from my photos. The variations are based on size and shape of painting (square, rectangular, really rectangular – and never horizontal for this scene, although that is an interesting idea). The variations […]
Mineral King Oil Paintings, continued
One time I painted the Mineral King scene of Farewell Gap with the Crowley family cabin plein air. That was very difficult – the light and colors kept changing, people kept asking what I was doing (umm, skateboarding?), and I had to keep scooting out of the way of cars. I don’t remember which one […]