Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Color Notan



Wednesday, June 10, 2009

14"x18"oil
24"x18" oil

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

January work





Thursday, January 8, 2009

Happy New Year

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Three Trees



small sketches starting from foliage outline, to main limbs near & far, foliage groups near & far, attaching branches.

Saturday, December 20, 2008

wood pile

using the elements of design to create an image that will be read as a specific object.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Copy of

Watercolor 7"x 10"

Getting ready for January watercolor class with Tony Couch

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Elm Shadow

9"x 11" Watercolor

Friday, December 5, 2008

Elm study


4"x 6" pencil study


lightly drawn draft on watercolor paper, photoshopped to be visible.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Warm and Cool

A study viewing two Color Wheels through warm and cool filters

Watercolor 10"x14"

Monday, November 3, 2008

Glory Reel

Fiddle Practice
video

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Line and Value study

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

River Elm progress

20"x 30" oil

Bridge Entry

18"x 24" oil study

Over the Angel

Russian Olive study
6"x 7"charcole pencil

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Drawings


4"x 6" Charcole pencil drawing





10"x 6" Charcole pencil drawing

Monday, July 28, 2008

River Elm

20"x 26" charcole

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Trees by Bridge


I'm starting to understand something new about trees as forms. "that the parts closer overlap the rest".

It also helps to know which branches support which foliage.
I found myself walking backwards from the trunk a lot.

The sides were fairly easy, the middle is more complex because it needs to be foreshortened.

Up River Sketch


Started something new when drawing this. I tried picking a line that will describe a 'surface plane change' of the object.
I plan to keep working that idea, but draw the plane change line before drawing the edge. Let the less obvious influence the more noticeable.and see what happens.







13"x 19" pastel from the same view as before.I kind of neglected indicating the plane changes of objects when I switched to using color.