Pastels on canvas
These two recent pastel drawings are on canvas. Primed canvas is an unusual support for pastels or charcoal because it's not absorbent enough. Pastel chalk falls off too easily. I originally intended to use these canvases…
Category: Studio Corner
Studio journal 1/8/17
Here's the studio corner with recently-worked paintings drying. The bottom-right painting, Sub Rosa, is still in the starting stages. You can see the gray-tone ground throughout.
Studio journal 12/28/16
Euclid Avenue #1 took up my time today. Euclid Avenue #1 is part of the Playhouse Square series. Push-pull. I've disdained synthetic brushes in the past, but I finally found a model that behaves decently:…
Studio journal 12/11/16
I thought I was going to finally finish Main Street #1 today but I fell short. I am still not satisfied with the right-most figure. So, I keep working until I'm happy with it. Today I…
In the studio 11/27/16
Visit to the Square is part of the Playhouse Square series. I worked on it yesterday and today. It's early evening now and the light is gone but I plan to work on it some…
In the studio 11/26/2016
The Press is based on several photos I took during the RNC in Cleveland this past summer. The Press still has a long way to go but I think you can get the sense…
In the studio 11/25/16
I worked on Three Women in Sandals. I toyed with calling the painting The Three Graces... I have always had a hard time settling on names for paintings and the problem seems to be getting…
In the studio 11/13/16
Some recent work on view in this photo. Break, lower-right, is part of the Playhouse Square series and is close to being finished. Press, lower-left, is sill very raw. Sunday Parade, on the easel, was recently…