Central Park Duck Pond

New York City Central Park Duck Pond

Here's a plein air painting that I painted of the Central Park Duck Pond looking southwest along Central Park South. This one is done in oils on a 16" x 20" panel.
This is avaiable at my Etsy store here:https://www.etsy.com/shop/gundersonstudio

Tinker Street Woodstock New York

Tinker Street Woodstock New York

Painted from the village green in Woodstock, New York.

This view is looking west on Tinker Street.

My still life meditations

These are my little still life meditations, small-scale and quickly done.

More drawings from Life Class

Charcoal on Canson 2 minutes to 5 minutes

Drawing from Life

More drawings from life.

These are all in charcoal with Nupastel heightening of form on Canson Mi Tientes paper. As usual, these are available.

Watercolor Figures

The latest from Sundays at Woodstock.

These are watercolor figure paintings 18" x 24" and are all available.

Experimental Drawing and the Figure with Keith Gunderson

Experimental Drawing with the Figure at the Woodstock School of Art was held this week and it was a blast.

Participants prepared various papers with textures, imbuing them with powerful MetaData, all designed to enhance the figure within its figure frame reference. Exercises in rhythm gesture and scale were explored with rigorous techniques designed to enhance visualization. In addition, we explored the nature of how the brain processes visual information using cues and symbologies. Finally,  we explored how to construct a workflow that suits our individual expression. 

Apricots and Grapes

A little still life of fruit. I am very much thinking about how texture and metadata can portray light- the way light bounces and diffuses. As it diffuses it translates into a kind of noise or pixelation, much as the algorithms in Photoshop emulate these dynamics.

Flow

A charcoal and pastel drawing on blue Canson paper.

Easton Crape Myrtle

I painted this painting en plein air in Easton Maryland. The Crape Myrtle bush blooms in the late spring in Maryland and the color is brilliant, similar to Bouganvilla in intensity. Quinac Red Rose seems to be the only color that can do it justice.

The Red Buddha

I have a collection of carved buddhas... this red one is fun to paint as it has this amazing lacquer patina that glistens.

A corner of the Studio

A corner of the Studio with accouterments of the painter's craft. The drapery and cast cabinet, the skeleton in its closet, canvases stacked above the small changing closet.a cast of Donatello's David for inspiration and the chair and coffee cup of the model who is posing just to the right, out of our field of vision.

North light studio

Whilst painting the figure one morning in my friend Alex's studio, I opted to make my fellow sketch group artists the motif.

Portrait of Tommy

I've painted many a portrait and thought I'd post this one of Tommy- a much-loved model at the Art Student's League of New York.
Gosh, the more I look at this the more it reminds me of Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington where ol' George's dentures are not fitting so well and distends the bottom lip out a bit, much as it is doing here.

Along a Naples Canal

I was scoping out suitable places to paint one morning and found this little scene nearby.
The bougainvillea was crawling all over a column from a retaining wall that reminded me a lot of French rococo artists- Fragonard in particular. He popularized a type of garden landscape painting that collectors prized. This view was also an excuse for me to paint my beloved palm trees.

Portrait of Jaycee

This is a portrait of Jaycee. It is painted in oils on a masonite panel that I coated with a homemade glue and chalk gesso.

The Bow Bridge

Mid-park at 74th street is the Bow Bridge. This was a quick plein air sketch from along the promenade on a cold blustery day in November.

The Bridge itself was designed during the mid 19th century by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould.

Jersey City Tugs

Not too far from where I painted the previous painting is where I painted this scene.It's at Liberty State Park- looking north from the old Morris canal in Jersey City. There's a kind of marina there .Hardly recognisable now with all the development. A gritty part of town in a city with a lot of heart.

Central Park Gazebo

This was painted plein air from a Central Park gazebo which is perched on a rocky knoll  just off Sixth Ave. looking east.

Winter on Sixth Ave.

I painted this little thumb box sketch at the foot of Sixth Ave. at Central Park on a winter;s day in January..