This was painted on a 6×6 canvas panel and was inspired by an image by u_co44impxvh from Pixabay.
Refreshing Blue Cocktail
Small Works
It’s Summer… Time for Ice Cream!
I did this painting in soft pastel based on an Image by Chil Vera from Pixabay.
It’s on a “Slate” colored 6×8 4-ply Pastel Premier board that I bought some time ago when I trying out soft pastels. (So far, I’m still favoring acrylic paints, but this was fun to do!) The pastels I used are shown at right.
Study: Brown Eggs in a Bowl
I wanted to try a monotonal work; this was done on a 6×8 canvas. The painting is based on an image by experimentMR from Pixabay.
I think it looks better at a distance.
Quick Study: Dec 2015 Early Evening
I did this quick study from memory and on a 6×6 canvas panel based on one of my own photos. I had previously underpainted the panel in an Ultramarine Blue-Titanium White mix, which seriously affected the magenta paint.
Quick Study: December Evening Sky
For this study, I used another of my own photos — this one taken one evening in early December of 2021 from my backyard. The Moon was actually a crescent at the time, but I had a cheap smartphone at the time with a lousy camera, so it looks full, and I carried on with that in my painting. Jupiter is shining above the Moon, and Venus is near the silhouette of the chimney.
This was done on a 4×6 piece of 300 lb. cold-pressed watercolor paper. The house silhouette is blue-black, and the sky was painted in tints of dioxazine purple. The Moon, Jupiter and Venus are painted in a yellow-white mix.
Quick Study: November Morning Sky
This painting was done in acrylic on a 4×6 piece of 300 lb. cold-pressed watercolor paper. It’s based off of a photo I took of the waning crescent Moon one morning back in November 2021.
I felt the original image of the sky was too gray and blue, so I changed it up at bit. The sky was painted with Liquitex BASICS blue gray; the pink is Cadmium Red Medium Hue from Golden, and the Moon is Titanium White mixed with Hansa Yellow Light (PY 73).
Skies over home
This 4×6 painting in acrylic on 300 lb. cold-pressed watercolor paper is based off a photo I took in Dec 2021 near sunset.
Colors used for the tree and roof silhouette: Chromium Oxide Green, Alizarin Crimson, and a touch of Cerulean Blue
Colors used for the sky: Cerulean Blue, Phthalo Blue, Cad-free Orange, Cad-free Yellow, Titanium White, Blue Gray
Quick Study: Sea & Sky
This painting was a quickie, from imagination, after having browsed through images — photos and paintings — of the sea and sky.
My primary focus was the clouds.
This is 4×6 done on 300 lb. cold-pressed watercolor paper, so I could wet my acrylics a bit.
Black Labrador
This is my first animal “portrait”, based on an image by Nikki Luijpers from Pixabay.
I love black Labs! Never had one, but a roomie from 40 years ago had a black Lab named Emma, and I just loved that dog! BEST DOG EVER.
This quick study was done on 6×8 gessoboard, which I gessoed again to get rid of the smooth surface, and then painted over with Neutral Gray 5.
