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Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Week 13 New Ways To Share Your Art
Sunday, March 28, 2021
Pretty Piper
12" x 9"
Oil with palette knives on Ampersand Gessobord
Rick asked me if I would paint a portrait of Piper as a birthday gift for his husband. Isn't she a beauty? I used one of the photos he sent for the face and then added the collar from another image he sent. I thought the yellow daisy was a nice touch.
Here are a few progress shots.
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Week 12 Motivate Others
Saturday, March 20, 2021
Truro beach houses
12" x 12"
Oil with palette knives on cradled board
SOLD
These two houses sit on the beautiful shoreline of Truro Massachusetts on Cape Cod. The light is so amazing here especially when the sun is just going down. Don't you want to be here right now with a beach chair, a good book, and a glass of wine? I sure do. Today is the first day of spring so that's a good sign that scenes like this are in the near future!
Here is a progress shot showing you my set up at the gallery while painting this scene.
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Saturday, March 13, 2021
Welcome To Provincetown
12" x 12"
Oil with palette knives and a wipe out tool
SOLD
I love this old weathered sign that you see as you enter Provincetown from Truro on Cape Cod. I've always wanted to paint it so I decided now was the time to finally do it.
I struggled with how I was going to "paint" the letters on the sign using my palette knives, so instead I decided to use one of my favorite tools. It's called a Wipe Out Tool and below is a photo to show you what it looks like. It's got a chisel rubber tip on one end and a rounded rubber tip on the other.
Here's how it works. I painted a swatch of dark blue lettering color as a flat shade in acrylic (because it dries fast). Next, I painted the lighter blue color on top in oil. Then I used the Wipe Out Tool to "lift up" the lighter blue color to reveal the darker blue color underneath. I use to same tool to sign my initials on the front of my paintings. For my signature, the tool lifts up the oil color to reveal my acrylic orange ground color underneath. You can see this at the bottom right of this image.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Week 10 Your Top Ten
Sunday, March 7, 2021
Sully
Sully
6" x 6"
Oil with palette knives on Ampersand Gessobord
Here is a photo I took of my set up at the studio/gallery. I like to have both a color print out and the photo reference up on my iPad at the same time while I paint.