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"

New Work, New Photos

Well I've finally begun to take advantage of the fabulous photo studio at MassArt which I just found out is available to all alumni as well as current students, set for life.

Lately I've been getting very excited about drawing and have been doing some intense small pieces which are not shown here but are very much happening.  I did a watercolor on a whim as demonstration during a class I was teaching but I ended up really liking it.  Perhaps I will push this a bit further in the studio.

Here are some new pieces with some old pieces but all are photographed well.  There is still a warping happening, you may notice, although not nearly as bad as when I photograph my work on my own.

"Drawn Collage Landscape"
 30"x22"
 Charcoal and Graphite on Paper

"Line Landscape"
30"x22"
Charcoal on Paper

    

"Charcoal Landscape"
30"x22"
Charcoal on Paper

"Bright Landscape"
36"x22"
Oil on Canvas

"Horizontal Landscape with Flesh"
26"x32"
Oil on Canvas

"Landscape with Flesh"
32"x26"
Oil on Canvas

"Red Hill"
13"x11"
Oil on Canvas

"Wave"
13"x11"
Oil on Canvas

"Red Sky with Cliffs"
36"x28"
Oil on Canvas

"Watercolor"
12"x9"
Watercolor on Paper