Turpentine diaries 8/20/17
I finished drawing the cartoon for this painting yesterday and spent the morning transferring it to the canvas. You can see the transferred cartoon in this photo. I spent the remainder of yesterday and all of…
Tag: unfinished paintings
Turpentine diaries 8/13/17
I finished the small painting sitting on the floor this morning. I thought I'd finished it last week but something about it bugged me this morning, so I couldn't resist taking-up the brush. Sometimes when…
Turpentine diaries 8/6/17
The Delegate is 36" x 48". It still has a way to go. It's another painting with an annoying surface. I've written a lot recently about painting surfaces, I know. I bought a large roll…
Turpentine diaries 7/30/17
Sub Rosa, on the easel, is part of the Main Street series. I've been using RGH's ultra-fine flake white regularly, which can be seen in the middle of the palette. I like it. Last week,…
Turpentine diaries 7/16/17
I decided to work on my backlog of unfinished studies and small paintings. I worked on all of the paintings in the photo today, the bottom-left one last. One small study, not shown, has a problem…
Turpentine diaries 6/25/17
The Girl in the Lavender Dress, another painting in the Playhouse Square series, is nearly finished and today's was only the sixth session, which is fast for me. You can see in the right background…
Studio journal 6/11/17
Good day after a bad day. I was so excited to get into the studio yesterday, I was mixing my medium at 5:30 AM. I make my medium fresh every day. It's very drying and…
Studio journal 6/2/17
After spending the morning drawing, I fully intended to finish Euclid Avenue #1, which I wrote about in the previous Studio journal post, and you can see it in the background of this photo. Instead, I worked…