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Study for Bridge and Port
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

Small Study for the NE Florida Industrial Series

Study for Red Mill
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas

Rio Grande Gorge Revisited

I have attempted to paint the gorge bridge several times and have never been quite satisfied until now.  I think I am getting closer to what I want with this one.

The Gorge
12 x 24 Oil on Canvas

More New Landscape Work

Following on the experimental works from my last post, I retained some of the concepts and process I used but moved into my preferred medium of Oils on canvas.  I also used oil crayon and oil sticks on the work and kept to the landscape format.

Hiking Near Los Alamos
24 x 20 Oil and Oil Crayon on Canvas Panel

Million Dollar Highway to Ouray
22 x 28  Oil and Oil Crayon on Canvas 

Experiments with Landscape

The Artist group I have been involved with for the past few years has embarked on a new endeavor for this year involving a set of art cards containing "instructions" in 3 distinct categories.  We blind pick a card from each category deck and must use at least two of the cards to produce a piece.   The basics of my 3 cards were:

• Do a painting using only Cadmium Orange and a tube black
• Do a Blind Contour drawing of a photograph you like or a live subject (person, place or thing). Don't look down at the paper while you are drawing.  If you come up with something abstract. GOOD
• Use drafting tape as a design tool.  Start with a wet-into-wet underpainting (this layer will be your lightest light).  After this dries, apply random shapes to your paper using drafting tape.  Draw your subject and paint it. If you wish, add more tape as you go, or move the tape around to add layers.  

I couldn't see myself using only orange and black so chose to incorporate the other two cards and see where it went.  I ended up doing two works for this project.  Million Dollar Highway is from a drawing of the road from Durango to Ouray in Colorado from this past fall just as the leaves were beginning to change color.   Bonavista Visions is from photos and drawings I have of trips to the Cape Bonavista Lighthouse in Newfoundland.  

Million Dollar Highway
18 x 24 Mixed Media on Fabriano Watercolor Paper

Bonavista Visions
24 x 18 Mixed Media on Fabriano Watercolor Paper