8″x20″ Oil on Panel
Thought I would try a larger painting of the dunes. I’ve really gotten use to using the smaller brushes. I felt like I was putting paint on with a shovel on this one. The painting will be available at the Kentuck Festival in Northport Alabama in October.
This is a drawing I did a couple of years ago. It was just sitting in a stack of papers so I thought I would post it. I always enjoy drawing males because they have harsher lines which makes them easier to see and easier to draw.
24″x24″ Oil on Canvas
Here is the still life I have been working on the past couple of days. I have changed my palette rather drastically this summer, which has been a lot of fun. As a result my still life paintings are turning out much brighter. I also set up my color corrected bulb and my florescent lights all to the left of the objects. It was a great way to find out what a lousy job the incandescent, color corrected bulb is doing at matching north light. The color corrected bulb was much warmer than the 5000K florescent lights. I didn’t have any problem finding warm and cool contrasts in this one.
As always, you can contact me if you are interested in this painting.
14′x11″ Oil on Canvas
This scene is from the Westervelt Gardens here in Tuscaloosa Alabama. The gardens are beautiful and start on the top of a bluff and work their way down through arbors and arches to the lake below (Lake Tuscaloosa). I have done four paintings of the gardens and have found them to be very difficult to paint due to the abundance of shapes and colors and the difficulty on deciding on which portion of the abundant subject matter to portray. Jack Warner owns the garden and has been very gracious over the years to allow painters to come and paint there. As most of you may also know, Jack Warner has put together one of the finest collections of American art in the world. It is now housed in the Westervelt Warner Museum.
6″x8″ Oil on Raymar Panel
Well, I unwillingly took a week off of painting. I was just a little under the weather but it made it very difficult to paint. Hopefully I will be able to spend some extended time in the studio this week. This is the first fall that I have planned to take several outdoor painting days but we have been smothered in rainy days. You can certainly paint a rainy day but it’s hard to do it without getting wet. Anyway, I can’t remember the last time we had this much rain in August and September. It seems like it has been non-stop since I came home from the beach. I should probably just go back!
6″ x 8″ Oil Painting on Raymar Panel
I have always been fascinated by the colors in Palmettos. When I went to the beach this past month I had wanted to paint at least one but didn’t get the chance. So here is my first shot at it and I will hopefully be able to do more of these in the future.
Line drawings are not my strong suit and I really wish there was more time to practice. I am heading out tonight to draw with a group of artist and I did this quick study to get warmed up. I’m always stunned at how much easier it is to draw from life than from a photograph (this one was from a photo). You just can’t see what you need to. Anyway, practicing drawing is what I’m up to today.
Eric Cator at the Paint Blog put up a very nice post this morning. Check out the post as well as some of the other artists he writes about.
6″ x 14′ Oil on Panel
This is the last one in this series of three. Once again I am finding myself frustrated with the limits of the camera. I spend a day trying to develop subtle color variations and the camera records it all as one color and value. This is why paintings are better!
6″ x 14″ Oil on Panel
Due to the haze, on the morning I saw these dunes, the values on this one were very close, but it seems to have worked out alright. I had to rely more heavily on color to communicate the form. As with the previous post, this painting will be set aside for the galleries unless it is claimed before it dries. 
