I’m back with a work in progress post. I recently finished a 24×30″ painting in acrylic of a beloved golf course on commission. With such a big painting its important to throw down a lot of color quickly to get that white canvas out of view, but with enough precision… Read More »WIP: Painting of a Golf Course
Here with a teaser post of a work-in-progress. A watercolor painting of a local forest in mid-winter before the snows fell. Feels a lot like fall, but the bright low winter sun creates some very stark shadows The painting starts as a line-drawing, transferred onto a hot-press watercolor block. If… Read More »Watercolor in Progress
When we last left off, I had just put down my darkest values and finished the sky and mountains. Continuing to work primarily back-to-foreground, top-to-bottom, I’ve begun building up the tower and filling in the grasses with many overlapping short strokes. It took a long time to build up the… Read More »Commissioned Landscape in Progress, Complete
I finished another painting! And it’s another animal skull! It is a 12×16″ inch original watercolor painting of a giant pheasant skull. Matted to 11×14″ and framed to 14×18″. The frame is much more beautiful in person. My iPhone does not do the image justice photographing through the glass, but you… Read More »Really into Skulls