In the studio 8/14/16
I’m having fun with the blues in Break. Break is part of the Playhouse Square Series. Break is 40″ x 50.”
In the studio 7/31/16
Playhouse Square Trip is, as the name implies, part of the Playhouse Square series. The design is based on several photos I took during one of my photo sessions at the Square. As readers know, I’ve been working on the series for a year or thereabout. The Square is heavily frequented by office workers, visitors, and theatergoers
In the studio 6/22/16
Sometimes I have to sneak up on a painting. It took me awhile to identify what was bugging me about Break Time. The background behind the right-hand figure didn’t please me, so I corrected it today. In the process, I painted over part of the figure’s hair, which is OK because the hair wasn’t finished
In the studio 6/19/16
I am into the overpainting phase with Parade. although the surface is still very matte. No part is exactly done. Yesterday’s morning session went poorly. I couldn’t see. It happens. Sometimes when I take up a painting that I struggled with previously, the solution is obvious. How could I have missed it? When artists talk
In the studio 6/12/16
I went to our Main Street three separate times to take photographs for this composition. I won’t bore you with why it took three trips. I finally got photos I can use and cobbled together several for the design for this new oil, Woman Listening to a Phone on Main Street. I’ll probably change the title.
In the studio 5/15/16
I have a lot of small canvases ready to go. By small I mean in the 24′ x 30′ range. Recently, I started painting landscapes on three of them. You can see the beginning of one in the background sitting on the wastepaper basket. Yesterday I worked on the landscape seen out the window in Grandfather and had
In the studio 5/1/16
It’s raw and cold for a May day in NE Ohio. It feels more like March than May–rainy, gray, and windy. A woman asked me why I don’t spend more time teaching art on my website. Seeing my puzzlement, she added, “You write about technical subjects related to painting, but you don’t provide instruction on
In the studio
After working on paintings with a lot of figures in them, working on The Photographer’s single figure is refreshing. I don’t actually know the woman in this painting, which is based on one of many photos I took at a local fair. Anyway, she struck me as a tough customer; all business, if you know