Windblown hair can dress up a pretty face even more. I needed a break from paint and opted to sketch. First, I used measured restraint and kept this simple idea simple in sketching Larissa. I love the way it’s turned out. Then I used an entirely different approach to sketching Leah. I shamelessly detailed and...
Her mother can’t relate to the hat. She says a floral crown with delicate little blossoms will work better. So I sanded off the hat. Then I painted out the background. I didn’t do the flowers. It turned out fine as is. Says her mother.
In the old days they called them ‘studies’. To build a painting composition you’d sketch it out and then start gathering the visual data by visiting the setting if that made sense, posing models and doing sketches of them, and scrounging up wardrobe. Then you’d do color studies or whatever other dry run made sense...
A local lake has meadows above the trail that surrounds it that get filled with the blue blossoms of Lily flowers each April. Kayla is my model in a merge of my three favorite painting subjects. So the composition is Girl plus Land Rover plus local landscape. I had been vexed over the fact that...
Roles are something I relish and I deal with situations within those roles as well as I can, each independently of the other. Stewardships, friendships, family relations, volunteer ventures, home owner, maintenance, etc.. But in all things, there is the influence of creative thinking. To the bone, without abandoning other roles, I am artist. In...
