San Jose Salt Ponds

This last image is the photo I am working off of. I have finished the underpainting (first image) and am now trying to get the colors right...trial and error...and very frustrating at times. A color I mix looks perfect in one light, then completely off in the photo or in a different light!

Lesson 4 - Self Portrait

Lesson 4 - Self Portrait

Lesson 2

Lesson 1

Splat!

Continuing to build warm layers of yellow, orange and reds with lots of texture.

Three Little Sea Turtles

Crayon, Oil Pastel and India Ink on canvas experiment. I like the turtle I did on plywood better with this technique...the black wash just doesn't take to the canvas as darkly as it did the wood and makes it far less dramatic.

Big, Bad Bunny (close to done)

Touching up the edges here, adding some bronze to the brown for a little shiny pop!

trtls

Splat!

Still working on this series of four. Ready now to glaze on layers of happy yellows, golds and orange!

Trash Mountain

Taken out by the bay on what used to be, years ago, the San Mateo dump and is now a park of sorts.

Started this last summer (at least) and hated it. Accurate compositionally (except for my choice to remove all buildings and telephone wires from the background hills), I decided to rework it some more to see where I can take it. It looks a lot better here in the photo for some reason....

Stormy Sea

Started ages ago, here is where I left it.


















Now starting work on it again....

Faerie (preliminary sketches)

Faerie (preliminary sketches)

Faerie (preliminary sketches)

Faerie (preliminary sketches)

Thinking of this pose for the second verse/scene...she is letting down her hair to cover her wings so she can blend in amung the human revelers.

Faerie (preliminary sketches)

Faerie (preliminary sketches)