"Blue"

5/15/15

New Painting, 5/8/15

The Process...

Recent Paintings....

Mountain Landscape

Glazed oil landscape of the Eastern Sierras lit by the setting sun.


Near finished below...

"Pigtails"

Cute

I loved this model...

Along the Pacific Crest Trail... completed!

Up for sale later this week.

Jonathan... Number Four

As a Cowboy...

 

Along the Pacific Coast Trail... (unfinished)

This painting, for sale, is based upon an original landscape photo of mine taken in the Eastern Sierras along the Pacific Crest Trail near Mammoth.   I simply fell in love with the view from here, as distant as it was.  I'll let you Sierra Club people tell me which mountains (and glaciers) these are:

 
The cowboy was added when I realized I would have loved to have been on horseback and come upon this view back when very few traveled this route!   There is still some work to go on this one.

* SOLD * - Vintage Western style...

I previously painted a cowboy piece in the style of a vintage Western-genre illustration I saw in a store long ago, and recently decided to create another piece in a similar style to sell.

Above is a photo of that first piece (painted in acrylic at 5" X 10")... below it is my newest in oil at 8' X 10" from an MP-4 video still.

New Studio

"Pigtails" Finished...

Are they ever really finished...???

"Lady in Renaissance Garb"...

 

                

                       Painted very quickly at the studio workshop.

"Nick" - Finished Commissioned work in Acrylic

Someone asked me what my commissioned pieces can look like when a client wants a finished piece that is "tighter."  "Nicholas" is a 16 X 20 portrait in acrylic, using the John Watkiss (search Blogspot) approach to paint build-up method, and is color-glazed.  Nick's Mom was elated by this portrait, so much so that I also painted her daughter, Alexandra --- and no, they are not Romanoffs.....


Note the original (not at all well-lighted) reference photo to the left.  If I were to do this painting again, I would have "staged" the lighting more in the painting to focus more on the boy's face.

Unfinished Portraits...

Sometimes you have just an hour or two to work on a portrait of a model.  When that happens, backgrounds and costumes become secondary.  Note that the top painting is another of Jonnathon, the actor/professional clown model who's like a chameleon, always changing his look (he was the man with the Victorian moustache and goggles, and also a "professor" in two previous posts).

Vicki... Take Two

The Professor... Second Take.

Video still of my newest oil painting sketch of Jonnathon the actor/model/ landlord/ professional clown, in his "professor" mode once again.

The Professor...

Oil Sketch, 16" X 20".  This gentleman is actually an old-school-style professional clown when he is not modeling...

Paint Sketch Illustration of a Model...

Aerodynamic...?

An oil sketch, unfinished.  I like how she looks almost aerodynamic in this pose... much like a vintage 1920s hood ornament.

Painting of a Pin-Up Girl in Street Gear...

Oil painting in progress of a pin-up model dressed most un-pin-uppy (look hard and you will see that a pin-up photo of her will appear behind her in the finished piece).  That's of course the reference photo to your right.