Eagle Lake Such an ugly start. Let’s git ‘er dun! Eagle Lake (a painting formerly known as a dog’s breakfast), 7×14”, oil on wrapped canvas, $200, currently drying, destined for the Silver City Store, unless it sells first from this little spot on the interwebs. Oak Grove Bridge The Oak Grove Bridge is a bit […]
Starting Two New Oil Paintings
Favorite Bridge The commissioned painting of fields and groves needed more drying time, so I began a new painting of my favorite bridge—Oak Grove, on the Mineral King Road. It is always difficult. I make it even harder by choosing canvases of non-traditional proportions. This is 8×16”. It sometimes helps to crop off the unnecessary […]
Close to Finishing the Oil Painting Commission
The distant groves and fields are probably finished. Time to begin the embellishments. I found blueberry photos on the interwebs, AND I have my own from excursions in Oregon. In my extensive collection of photos, I found one of avocado leaves, pre-digital. I used my inferior phone camera to take a picture so I could […]
Further Development on the Commissioned Oil Painting
Five step-by-step photos today, mostly painting left to right. So many parts in the photo were ambiguous and repetitive that I often lost my place. A way to combat this lostness is to first paint the things that are definite, then make up the stuff around them. Some of my sizes are probably definitely wrong, […]
Beginning a 10×20” Commissioned Oil Painting
The real estate customers chose the panoramic shape. Good thing they know I can paint. (Well, duh, that’s why they commissioned me.) This is similar to my current favorite subject to draw and paint, but there are blueberries and avocados rather than orange trees. There is also a distinct lack of snow-covered mountains and no […]
Long Distance Oil Painting Commission
Some friends in real estate in a distant place have occasionally asked me to paint something for a customer after a large sale is made. Client. I think “client” is probably more correct here. Remember these? I wonder if the clients appreciated the paintings. No one has gotten in touch to thank me or ask […]
Oil Painting Some Local Stuff
What word did people use before “stuff” became so ubiquitous? A little more work on these quail made it good enough to sign. More work ahead on this one: The scanner could not do this justice, so I put it in the sunshine and took a photo with my inferior phone camera. And this one […]
What This Central Calif. Foothill Artist Does in a Day
Not gonna bore you with mundane details of life, just the productive and mildly interesting aspects that often fill a workday for me. First I met some friends early and we slammed out 4 miles on foot. Sometimes I don’t have anyone to walk with, and so I pick shorter steeper walks. On this particular […]
Tryna Paint | A Few Other Things First
So many parts to my little life: editing, gardening, doing stuff for church. . . but I was ‘posed to be painting. Look! This crape myrtle tree isn’t dead after all! Hey! Why are these iris hiding? This sign will be repurposed, but first Trail Guy had to scrape off old lettering, and then I […]
And Another Little Painting Session
My plan was to get serious about the remaining five Mineral King oil paintings, to focus, finish, and move on. I started with Sawtooth, the 6×6” version that Reader Sharon expressed an interest in. Look at this succession of color mixing. My goal was a light brown, something that might be called “taupe” by the […]