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 

Artist Book finished!

I have been experimenting with drypoint etching on a little press I bought to play with a few months ago.  I have finished a limited edition of six hand printed books of Florida threatened and endangered wildlife.  The covers are also made with hand painted papers and hand stitched.  Four books are available at the Island Art Association Gallery. 

Hand painted paper covers 

Drypoint Etching Prints in the book. (cover page with text is not etching)

Sailing by Jaxport

Sailing by Jaxport
60 x 40 oil on canvas 

Another new small one

● Boat Ride on the Okeefenokee
12 x 16 Oil on canvas 

Small Ones

●Some Colorful Chicks
8 x 8 Oil on Canvas 

●Bird Song
8 x 8 Oil on Canvas 

A Nicho for the Right Whales

●Hope for the 7 Babies
Right Whale Nicho
Wood, paint, clay 

Artist Nichos

I am involved with a wonderful group of women artists who have taken on a series of projects designed to get us out of our comfort zones and to have some fun with our work.  The last project series was based on a card deck of different artists.  We drew a card then had to create a work based on something about the artist or their work styles or the quotes on the cards.  The deck is called Art Oracles and has a very eclectic assortment of artists.  The two last cards I drew were Joseph Beuys and Yves Klein.  For some reason both of those artists just lent themselves to having a nicho made in memory of their works.  Plus it was a lot of fun to get back into a 3d art format.

Nicho for Joseph Beuys
Felt, wood, clay, paper, and paint 

Nicho for Yves Klein
Wood, acrylic, paint tube, paint.

Jaxport

I have included images from the port in some of the mill and bridge paintings but have never really had a good reference photo for Jaxport.  The port references in those paintings are fleeting visual images from memories while driving past.  My neighbor Kenny however works at the port and gave me some photos to use so I could paint something for him and his wife Stacy.  The first painting is a kind of sketch to get familiar with the images and the second was done specifically for a place in their house.

●Loading Up
20 x 16 Oil on Canvas 

●A Confusion of Cranes for Kenny
22 x 22 Oil on Canvas

Spillway

●Spillway
36 x 36 Oil on Canvas