Turpentine diaries 2/18/20
More Playhouse Square work. This one is creatively titled Trip to Playhouse Square. This (still) unfinished painting is 40" x 50." I like the size and recently ordered enough stretchers for 9 paintings sizes 40"…
Category: Vermilion, OH
Turpentine diaries 1/7/18
I worked on Booth at the Fair these past two days. It's starting to move my way. I can struggle with paintings for a variety of reasons, sometimes technical, sometimes who knows what. This painting hit…
Some watercolors
Odds and ends. Today, I finished the landscape (somewhere around Monterey) and worked on the figure with the striped shirt (my wife Kathleen). It still needs work. Both are watercolors. The pen and ink drawing…
Boating season soon
Even though the winter was mild, we are just now at the beginning of the boating season. The Betty Jane is the middle boat in this photo. It's shrink-wrapped like its winter-storage neighbrors. Shrink wrapping…
Winter rain
It's unusual to get rain showers in February in NE Ohio. Normally, the only precipitation we experience this time of year is snow--a lot of it. But the warm weather, 70+, was accompanied by driving, slashing rain. My…
Studio journal 2/21/17
I've always approached painting as a process of carving away and revealing, the way I imagine a sculptor approaches sculpting. Not modeling but carving. I bring this up because this unfinished painting, Sub Rosa, is a pretty good…
Studio journal 1/18/16
Sub Rosa, the unfinished painting on the easel, is moving along. The underpainting is nearly done. The white-seeming ground visible throughout the painting is actually a middle-ish gray tone. Compare it with your eyes to the…
In the studio 8/20/16
It's curious how problems can disappear. Sometimes when I take up a painting that I struggled with, the solution is blindingly obvious. How was it that I struggled? Today was like that with Victory Park…