Life Drawing Watercolor

From a life drawing workshop.
18" x 24"

How to rehydrate opaque watercolor paint that has dried in the tube.

How to rehydrate opaque watercolor s that has dried in the tube.

Rehydrating Watercolor Paint

Drawings from Life Class

Here's a few from life class this week.

New Figure Sketch August 2013

A few from sketch class this week.

Coates Vine Charcoal and Ivory NuPastel ,on Canson Mi Tientes.

Cabin in the Woods

I painted this at my friends house in the northeast kingdom of Vermont in Barnet.

A beautiful early 18th century house in the woods with a room of antiques that resembles

 a mountain man's cabin in the woods, with all the accoutremonts of the time.

A special place I stayed at for a few weeks while they were away, only me, my paints, the dogs,a cat, a horse, and a ghost.

Bright Earth

Highly recommended book on the origins and evolution of pigments and the relationship of artists pigments to the creation of Art . Equally fascinating is the link between the science of pigment fabrication and how the chemical industry began from this artist driven imperative.

Excellent four part You Tube lecture by the author.

Scenes from Rockport and Gloucester

Here are a few plein air paintuings from my workshop in Rockport Mass.

Gloucester Boatyard

24" x 36"

oil on canvas

Motif Number One Sunrise

16" x 20"

oil on panel

End of Day

End of Day

18" x 24"

Everglades Sunset

Everglades Sunset

16" x 20"

I'm experimenting with working on gold leaf grounds on this one. The trick is to not cover the gold leaf up with opaque paint and to let the shimmer come through the paint layers.Glazing layers of sun thickened oil medium or thinned canadian balsam, increases the refraction index  and heightens the effect.

New Sketch Drawings

A few of the latest from sketch class - all 18" x 23"

 

Ecorche Class and the Hyoid Bone

In the Ecorche class at the Woodstock School of Art we are presently fleshing out the head and neck, and last week class I lectured on the Hyoid bone and it's role as an anchpr for muscle and the role of the Laryngeal cartilage of the Cricoid as armor for the glottis.

Florida Oil Paintings

Here's a selection of florida oil paintings that I painted in and around areas of southwest florida.

From a home base in Naples, I venture out with my paintbox and easel  to Everglades City, Corkscrew Swamp, Collier Seminole State Park,, Cayo Costa, Chokoloskee, Pine Island, and anywhere I can find some little bit of unspoiled Florida.

Florida Pines
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Florida Moonrise

Tamiami Trail

Thunderheads over the Everglades

Southwest Florida Palmettos

In the Everglades

The Abandoned Boat

Cayo Costa