Wednesday, December 10, 2014

New Watercolors



Watercolor on vellum bristol, 2014.

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

House Portrait Commission Complete!

                               
                           
Oil on canvas, 2014.

Details:










Friday, May 2, 2014

Video: Oil Portrait Sketch

Got the oil paints out again, getting re-acquainted with some practice. I used yellow ochre, permanent red medium, burnt sienna, prussian blue, titanium white.



Tuesday, April 22, 2014

2 Portrait Studies

I painted these 2 in the studio this morning as a warm-up. I used vine charcoal & black and white craft-grade acrylic paint mixed with retarder to aid wet-in-wet application. The surface is corrugated cardboard.




Monday, April 7, 2014

Vote for "The Red Hat"!


I have entered my painting "The Red Hat" into the 2014 Jerry's Artarama Self-Portrait Contest. If you would like to vote for my entry, please follow the link below:

Thanks for your support!

To see the post on the making of the painting, go to http://theartingblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/working-on-red-hat.html

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Video: Painting Rembrandt in Acrylic Part 2

This is the second installment of my Rembrandt acrylic demo. Unlike the last video, this one's a talkie.