MEDIOCHRE ART

This Chinese Money Plant was a gift from a dear friend. I decided to paint this little study as a gift for her birthday. That’s going to be my new thing to motivate me to paint more often and let go of some of my work finally. 

Details

Time: 2 hrs

Surface: 4×6 canvas paper

Palette: Limited (phthalo blue, cadmium red medium, burnt sienna, cadmium yellow lemon and titanium white)

Feeling like I need more color work so I’ve decided to begin creating more still lives. Here’s my first of a simple pear. 

Details

Time: 1 hr

Surface: 4×6 canvas paper

Palette: Limited (phthalo blue, cadmium red medium, cadmium yellow lemon and titanium white)

Class Work – I had a bit of fun with this one. While there are a few things that really aren’t working like the mountain colors and foreground strokes in the water, I feel like my values were pretty good. Overall I fell like I had some success with my rocks finally. 

Details

Time: 3 hrs

Surface: 5×7 Primed Canvas Board

Palette: Limited (ultramarine blue, cadmium red medium, yellow lemon and titanium white)

Class Work – Working with some bright colors and reflections. I liked painting the sailboat  but the water water pretty tough.

Details

Time: 2 hrs

Surface: 4×6 primed oil paper

Palette: Limited (ultramarine blue, cadmium red medium, cadmium yellow medium and titanium white)

Class Work – Sketch from a photo only using your sketch. No photo. The takeaway is to train your brain to remember what’s important. It’s helpful for when you’re looking back and forth between your scene and your painting. The more you remember, the more you can put down without looking away. You’ll become a more efficient painter which is most important when painting “en plein air”, a term used for painting on site. It’s important to record the scene as fast as possible before the light changes. I completed the study in the thumbnails below first and was bored with the colors and decided to ramp up the chroma for the final.

Details

Time: 4 hrs

Surface: 5×7 acrylic primed 1/4″ hardboard

Palette: Limited (ultramarine blue, cadmium red medium, hansa yellow and titanium white)

Every summer we have a good weekend with some newly Jay local friends and this is the summit of Jay Peak, Vermont. Always amazing views, funky everygreens and great rock formations.

Details

Time: 3 hrs

Surface: 6×8 oil primed linen paper

Palette: Limited (ultramarine blue, cadmium red medium, cadmium yellow lemon and titanium white)

Class Work – A nice red barn landscape. Sketched this from a photo and got to try out my new oil primed linen paper. It’s like butter.  I was able to keep my focus, which was on the barn, and tone back the unimportant details.

Details

Time: 3.5 hrs

Surface: 6×8 oil primed linen paper

Palette: Limited (ultramarine blue, cadmium red medium, cadmium yellow lemon and titanium white)