
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Newbury at Night - start 14" x 14" oil on board

Friday, January 20, 2012
Direct the Eye with Color

Look at the image here, which, by the way, belies the snowscape outside my window this morning. This shows my block in, and finished painting for "Breakfast Al Fresco", painted outside in our neighborhood during the local art festival one May day. You can see in the initial block in, that the strongest color notes lie in the bottom left, red shirt, yellow table, blue flowers. Those decisions were made at the start of the painting. My idea was to invite the viewer to the table in this lovely outdoor setting. I lay in those richest notes very early, and kept them throughout. The luscious greens, flowering plants, everything else are just slightly less in chroma. Of course, there are a lot of other elements drawing your eye down and to the table, but for today... chroma is key.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Colored Pencils oil 5 x 7
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$150 & $10 s&h |
I have been playing with color in my studio; trying out some new ideas for the next session of my painting class beginning later this week at North River Arts Society in Marshfield. I've been having a great time doing a series of small paintings; ideas I'll work on with my students.
I love color; juicy, bold, exciting, joyful color.
Whether high chroma; like "Colored Pencils", or more subtle, or a range of low to high chroma; I enjoy thinking about the color, its relationship to the other passages in the painting; the overall harmony - the entire process.
Sunday, January 01, 2012
End of Day oil 9 x 12
We finalized our plans yesterday for this summer's sojourn to Monhegan Island. It has become an end-of-year ritual; dates are fixed on the calendar; and more than a few minutes are spent anticipating the reunion with friends, games, conversation, sights, smells, salt, and long, joyful hours at my easel.
Here's a painting from one of my favorite spots on the island, late in the afternoon sitting out on the jetty as the shadows creep down Manana. When I see this painting, I hear gulls, laughter of children on the beach, the crunch of boats pulled up on the sand, and the lap, lapping of the waves on the rocks below me.
May your new year be more joyful than not. Happy 2012.
Here's a painting from one of my favorite spots on the island, late in the afternoon sitting out on the jetty as the shadows creep down Manana. When I see this painting, I hear gulls, laughter of children on the beach, the crunch of boats pulled up on the sand, and the lap, lapping of the waves on the rocks below me.
May your new year be more joyful than not. Happy 2012.
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