Fall Process

This Fall I have been using a new photo-collage method throughout the beginning stages of my work.  I call my use of photo-collaging "mapping," and I see it as just that; exploring a land and visually recording my findings.  I focus on composing shape, color and space to effectively describe my fragmented understanding of what I understand to be a completed imaginative space.  This space has been built up over time from a compilation of all things visual that I find intriguing. Through the mapping process I am able to view the land from different perspectives and for greater lengths of time.

Process shot of "Landscape on Paper 2"

Landscape on Paper 2

Oil Paint, Oil Pastel and Charcoal on Paper

18 x 24"

Yellow Earth

40 x 50"

Oil Paint and Oil Pastel on Canvas

Fall

Here is some of my work from this Fall. 

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Honeymoon Drawing

Charcoal on Paper

26 x 32.5"

Honeymoon

Oil Paint and Oil Pastel on Canvas

42 x 56"

Earth Slope

Oil Paint and Oil Pastel on Canvas

36 x 48"

Landscape on Paper 1

Oil Paint, Oil Pastel and Charcoal on Paper

18 x 18.5"

Process Post

Here is a post I've been working on all week.  I've tried to take photos at each decision point.  Of course not EVERY decision point, but highlighting the important ones.

I still have to measure this one but the sketchbook resting to the left of the canvas is about 12" long for reference.

This one is close to being finished.  Next time in the studio I will be lightening up my darkest dark blue and adding some glazes to my gray mid-tones for added depth and texture.

And here is "Earth Hole with Hidden Shape" again.  I thought it was much closer than it actually was to being finished when I posted it last time.  In really good lighting it looked okay for me but out of that something was lost.  I decided that a minor shift in light can't be to blame for an entire painting failing and that it actually was kind of dirty looking, so I got back in there. 

(This last one is a little warped because of the angle I took the photo)

Summer

"Earth Hole with Hidden Shape"
30"x48"

It has been quite a while since my last update, as usual, so here we go.
I've been turning my attention to a closer investigation of color and how it changes without a shift in pigment; meaning how colors change depending on what other colors are near by. I believe that I have finally come to this part of the painting process after spending the past two years figuring out shape, viscosity, and illusions in perspective (among other things!) in relation to my interpretation of the landscape.

Shown here is a photo of the painting I am currently working on titled "Earth Hole with Hidden Shape." I have worked on the painting since but this photo was lit the best.

Breaking Through

"Two Holes"
Oil on Canvas
48"x60"

"White Spheres"
Oil on Canvases
Diptych 2- 24"x30"

"Glow with Green"
Oil on Canvas
36"x45"