Check out this little bastard! It was one of those paintings that painted itself. Some paintings seem to just flow like magic while others fight for it. My friend Ginny came over to paint with me yesterday and the painting just emerged. It is a 9x12 on a panel, the name is "Crescent Lake," the unframed price is $175. The subject is a beautiful glacial lake in Olympic National Park, ...
Read MoreBwahahahaha! Murder on the Sound! Ok, so I'm inordinately pleased with my blog title. (Wasn't "Murder in Progress" a Goya painting?)Yes, I am in the process of painting a herd of crows which, technically, is referred to a murder. After the last piece ("Bird, Reborn") I felt the need to bring more birds into my recent landscape series. I superimposed various crows over the landscape image, working to create movement ...
Read MoreHere's a new technique for you. I wanted to work on a different underpainting technique in response to my new environment; basically I wanted to start with less chroma in the underpainting and keep adding subtle color layers as I built up. In other words completely different than my usual underpainting which starts out technicolor and gets toned down with each layer. The result is this quiet ...
Read MoreHere are some of my seascapes hanging at Port Townsend Gallery. It is always good to get the work out of the studio and into the public sphere; it changes the work when it is no longer exclusively mine. This works when I post things online as well, but it is interesting to see the work in different lighting. I am currently working on an underpainting that ...
Read MoreI am so excited about this idea! Okay, so this is a diptych titled "We Begin to Remember." Usually when I use photo reference to create panoramic images, I take two pictures side by side, then use my artistic prowess to smooth out the edges where the two images will meet. In other words I fudge it so that it becomes one united piece for the painting. In this case, ...
Read MoreOne day this past week I was working on the computer when the power went out; I decided to lay in an underpainting instead. I opened the blinds as far as they would go on a darkish rainy day. I laid in the entire underpainting; the power came back on, and I realized that I had the values down perfect but some of the most bizarre colors I have ever ...
Read MoreHello--and greetings from the Pacific Northwest! I needed a change of scenery so this summer I decided to move to the Olympic Peninsula of Washington. The water called me up here--as did the trees and the mountains. Finally got the studio set up to work; here is a new piece titled "Breathing." When I walk along the seashore and listen to the waves, it is the sound of the world breathing. ...
Read MoreDeconstruction of a painting... Beginning with the finished piece and working back through the process. Post-modernists should love this. This is a very emotional piece for me. When I began it I was feeling fiercely jubilant and wanted to create a piece celebrating life and wonder. (I was listening to Beethoven's 6th at the time, that symphony usually has that effect on me!) Life events occurred in the meantime as I ...
Read MoreI have had so much going on in the studio lately I have not been able to keep up with my computing! I'm posting a little encaustic work I did awhile ago to keep things moving until I can post more of my process-oriented articles. I have two new large-scale sepia toned pastels I am in the process of finishing right now, as well as a brand spanking new don't-brush-up-against ...
Read MoreSo a couple weeks ago I got a call from our local PBS station. They have a feature called "Western Bounty" where they interview Colorado artists; apparently it runs several times during a month and I am their February artist. You can also view it online (if I did this correctly, anyway...) by following this link or by going to rmpbs.org and putting my name into the search engine on ...
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