I’m trying to keep Photographer simple by suppressing detail. Some parts I’m liking but other parts bug me. At this point, I can’t guess when it will be done. I worked it all over during the last session and I’m going to put it aside and let it thoroughly dry before taking it up again.
I’ve titled this painting Sunday, then Parade, and now I’m calling it Sunday Parade. Let’s see how long that lasts. This painting is at the fun stage. When I get a painting to this stage, I do whatever I like and add touches as they occur to me. This morning I told my wife I…
I ended the day with a session with Spring. The canvas I used for this painting is the remnant of some cheap duck I bought long ago and forgot about. I should have never found it. I’ve struggled with the surface, which I should have expected.
Main Street #1 is almost done; I can smell it. I plan on taking my high school-age son and some of his friends down to Main Street in our town and take a lot of photos that I can use in my designs. I like figures in front of the shop windows. Our town is…
Break is part of the Playhouse Square series. It’s 40″ x 50.” I’m a little tired as I write. I worked on a 36″ x 48″ drawing this morning before switching to painting. Break is the third and last painting I worked on today. If I get a second wind, I’ll work on the drawing after…
It’s an overcast day. I don’t like photographing the work with artificial light, so this photo is not too hot. But I think you can get a sense of how it’s progressing. 3 Women in Sandals is part of the Playhouse Square series. It’s 44″ x 60.”
Drawing is the heart and soul of art. If the drawing is strong, you have to work hard to screw up a painting. If the drawing is weak, you have to work hard to just produce mediocrity. I’ve gone through periods during which I did more drawing than painting, especially when I was young and painting…
I am tired this evening so this is just a brief note. This painting is part of my Playhouse Square series. It’s not done but it is moving briskly. It’s 40″ x 50.”
This painting is still raggedy; some parts, such as the hair, are barely started. The thing I’m not happy with is the title: Phone Call on Main Street. It’s not so much a title as a description. I don’t like the raised edges that can occur where two carefully-painted areas meet. Beneath the bench, you…
Jane and Keith Aboard the Betty Jane is taking some time to bring into port. I like the painting–don’t get me wrong–but it represents a direction that I turned away from. But I’ve decided to turn back to that direction and see where it leads. What is it? I’m not being coy but I am not…
Today, I went back to the paintings in the Playhouse Square series. I spent a day or two working on other paintings and the drawing for a new painting (not in the series). I don’t experiment much anymore with mediums or processes. I tried a lot of different things before arriving where I am now, and…
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 I. I had struggled with some passages but today everything fell into place. I had a healing brush; everything was…
I’m having fun with the blues in Break. Break is part of the Playhouse Square Series. Break is 40″ x 50.”
After working on a painting, I set it aside to dry for a day before taking it up again. But when a painting is large, I can work on it for several days in succession. Yesterday, I worked on On the Square and because of its size, 48″ x 60,” I was able to work on it today.…
I concentrated on the paintings in my Playhouse Square series this week. On the Square is one of them. On the Square is 48 x 60″.