Day Twenty-Eight: 08.08.10
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Day Twenty-Seven: 08.08.10
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Day Twenty-Six: 07.12.10
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Day Twenty-Four: 06.21.10
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Day Twenty-Three: 06.20.10
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Drawings A Day: Drawing 23 - 28
Day Twenty-Eight: 08.08.10
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Day Twenty-Seven: 08.08.10
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Day Twenty-Six: 07.12.10
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Day Twenty-Four: 06.21.10
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Day Twenty-Three: 06.20.10
Friday, June 18, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Two new paintings.
Rankin's Grocery: Gas Tank 2
9x12-inches
Oil on Wood Panel
This oil painting is of an old gas station in Anderson, SC. I've done several color versions of different aspects of the old gas station, but this is my first black & white. By painting it black & white, it really allowed me to focus on the composition and object, and not the color.
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A History of Hands
9x12-inches
Oil on Canvas
An oil painting of an old door in Downtown Greer, SC. I really enjoyed playing with color in this one!
Rankin's Grocery: Gas Tank 2
9x12-inches
Oil on Wood Panel
This oil painting is of an old gas station in Anderson, SC. I've done several color versions of different aspects of the old gas station, but this is my first black & white. By painting it black & white, it really allowed me to focus on the composition and object, and not the color.
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A History of Hands
9x12-inches
Oil on Canvas
An oil painting of an old door in Downtown Greer, SC. I really enjoyed playing with color in this one!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
When I first started "A Drawing A Day" I had planned to do a new drawing every day. As time went by I noticed I was stressing about it. So, I have decided that I will continue the drawings but if I miss a day, no big deal. This is a project to loosen up and relax, not something to stress about. So far I am really enjoying this. Since I began this project I have been painting a lot more and feeling so much more creative.
Day Seventeen: 02.17.10
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Day Sixteen: 02.15.10
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Day Fifteen: 02.14.10
Inspired by the recent snow.
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Day Fourteen: 02.10.10
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Day Thirteen: 02.09.10
Inspired by a painting I was doing for Morgan.
Day Seventeen: 02.17.10
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Day Sixteen: 02.15.10
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Day Fifteen: 02.14.10
Inspired by the recent snow.
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Day Fourteen: 02.10.10
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Day Thirteen: 02.09.10
Inspired by a painting I was doing for Morgan.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Day Ten: 01.27.10
Inspired by the pillow on my bed
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Day Nine: 01.26.10
No preconceptions when I started, just knew I wanted to use blue and black in the final product.
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Day Eight: 01.25.10
"Let me hear you say, this shit is bananas
B-A-N-A-N-A-S"
- Hollaback Girl, Gwen Stefani
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
A Painting A Day (Day 1-3)
Over the last couple of years I have given up my drawings in pursuit of my paintings. I love painting and will continue to paint but I've wanted to start working again on my drawings. I've read blogs where people do a painting/drawing a day. A lot of these sites seem to be for monetary reasons, but I want my drawings to be complete unattached from anything other than a few minutes of complete creativity. No intentions other than a drawing on paper with whatever medium I choose at the moment. No preconceptions, just drawing from the heart and mind.
I'm doing all the drawings on ATC (Artist Trading Card) Illustration Board. The cutouts are the same size as a regular trading cards such as a baseball card. Keeping the size small keeps it relatively simple to do a drawing a day, whether it be as you lay in bed, on the couch, at lunch, while your oil is getting changed, etc. And depending on my mood, it can take 2 minutes or it can take 2 hours.
Here are my first three drawings. I started on Monday, January 18, 2010. I will post the drawings every couple days. Please let me know your thoughts...
Day Three: 01.20.10
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Day Two: 01.19.10
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Day One: 01.18.10
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I'm doing all the drawings on ATC (Artist Trading Card) Illustration Board. The cutouts are the same size as a regular trading cards such as a baseball card. Keeping the size small keeps it relatively simple to do a drawing a day, whether it be as you lay in bed, on the couch, at lunch, while your oil is getting changed, etc. And depending on my mood, it can take 2 minutes or it can take 2 hours.
Here are my first three drawings. I started on Monday, January 18, 2010. I will post the drawings every couple days. Please let me know your thoughts...
Day Three: 01.20.10
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Day Two: 01.19.10
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Day One: 01.18.10
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Place de la Concorde COMPLETE!
Place de la Concorde...COMPLETE!
Since the final dark glaze in the background has been added, I'm finally happy. There's some other ideas I have for a background but this particular painting is FINISHED! I would love to use this same subject matter with possibly different imagery but that's another time, another painting.
Since the final dark glaze in the background has been added, I'm finally happy. There's some other ideas I have for a background but this particular painting is FINISHED! I would love to use this same subject matter with possibly different imagery but that's another time, another painting.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Place de la Concorde
This is the progress of a painting that I have been working on for well over two years. It's been a very slow progress but an important one. I usually don't struggle with imagery but with this I have. The original photograph was lent to me by Sarah Tingen (www.sarahtingen.com).
Place de la Concorde
24x30-inches (wxh)
Oil on Canvas
The statue itself is wonderful but I have changed the background at least 5 or 6 times. My latest addition is the lettering of the background. It's just a sketch, still needs painting and hopefully will be finished soon! Yes Sarah, I'm changing it again...
This is an inspiration from a poem by EE Cummings. It's a love poem that he wrote to one of his wives. I kept thinking about what this painting meant to me, and this painting is an honor to the human figure, to God's creation. A love for something.
O District
Lady of my unkempt adoration
if i have made
a fragile certain
song under the window of your soul
it is not like any songs
(the singers the other
they have been faithful
to many things and which
die
i have been sometimes true
to Nothing and which lives
they were fond of the handsome
moon never spoke ill of the
pretty stars and to
the serene the complicated
and the obvious
they were faithful
and which i despise,
frankly
admitting i have been true
only to the noise of worms.
in the eligible day
under the unaccountable sun)
District Lady
swiftly take
my fragile certain song
that we may watch together
how behind the doomed
exact smile of life's
placid obscure palable
carnival where to a normal
melody of probable violins dance
the square virtures and the oblong sins
perfectly
gesticulate the accurate
strenuous lips of incorruptible
Nothing under the ample
sun, under the insufficient
day under the noise of worms
Place de la Concorde
24x30-inches (wxh)
Oil on Canvas
The statue itself is wonderful but I have changed the background at least 5 or 6 times. My latest addition is the lettering of the background. It's just a sketch, still needs painting and hopefully will be finished soon! Yes Sarah, I'm changing it again...
This is an inspiration from a poem by EE Cummings. It's a love poem that he wrote to one of his wives. I kept thinking about what this painting meant to me, and this painting is an honor to the human figure, to God's creation. A love for something.
O District
Lady of my unkempt adoration
if i have made
a fragile certain
song under the window of your soul
it is not like any songs
(the singers the other
they have been faithful
to many things and which
die
i have been sometimes true
to Nothing and which lives
they were fond of the handsome
moon never spoke ill of the
pretty stars and to
the serene the complicated
and the obvious
they were faithful
and which i despise,
frankly
admitting i have been true
only to the noise of worms.
in the eligible day
under the unaccountable sun)
District Lady
swiftly take
my fragile certain song
that we may watch together
how behind the doomed
exact smile of life's
placid obscure palable
carnival where to a normal
melody of probable violins dance
the square virtures and the oblong sins
perfectly
gesticulate the accurate
strenuous lips of incorruptible
Nothing under the ample
sun, under the insufficient
day under the noise of worms
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Barley, continued...
Barley, continued...
With all the metal, this painting is going to require a lot of glazing and color enhancement as the project goes on...and I have to finish it and another painting in less than two weeks!
With all the metal, this painting is going to require a lot of glazing and color enhancement as the project goes on...and I have to finish it and another painting in less than two weeks!
Friday, July 3, 2009
Barley, the Budweiser Dalmation
Barley
oil on linen
20x16-inches
It's my first shot at painting on linen. So far it's about the same as canvas except smoother which is always something I love! The Clydesdales were in Anderson, SC a few months ago and this is a painting of Barley atop the Budweiser carriage. This will go in the Pet Project Exhibition with the painting of "Tiger", opening July 24, 2009 at 7:00pm. A lot of work ahead...
oil on linen
20x16-inches
It's my first shot at painting on linen. So far it's about the same as canvas except smoother which is always something I love! The Clydesdales were in Anderson, SC a few months ago and this is a painting of Barley atop the Budweiser carriage. This will go in the Pet Project Exhibition with the painting of "Tiger", opening July 24, 2009 at 7:00pm. A lot of work ahead...
Little Blue Button
Little Blue Button
oil on canvas
not quite 5x5-inches
I had just a little bit of wood left after making a canvas, so I just put it together....and this is what came about! I have a class jar I put buttons in. I was sitting in my studio, trying to decide what to do with it and I was like, why not just go through my jar of buttons, and well, I found a PERFECT "Little Blue Button"!
oil on canvas
not quite 5x5-inches
I had just a little bit of wood left after making a canvas, so I just put it together....and this is what came about! I have a class jar I put buttons in. I was sitting in my studio, trying to decide what to do with it and I was like, why not just go through my jar of buttons, and well, I found a PERFECT "Little Blue Button"!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Tiger...Finished!
FINISHED!
This is just the beginning of a series of paintings that focus on pets as fine art, not just as a traditional portrait.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
In Progress... TIGER
This is an oil painting I'd doing for a show at the Anderson Arts Center called "Pet Project"...
Tiger
Oil on Canvas
24x12-inches
I've been working on it for about 15 hours now...It's coming together pretty well. I was really worried about it when I first started the dog because I was afraid he wouldn't show up off the background. I'm happy with the dog so far. The colors have been a real challenge with the orange background, but it showing through has really accented the dog since he has a lot of browns and golds within his furr. I'm not completely happy with the background. I'll defintely go back and work on it once the dog's complete. Maybe it's just too painterly for me right now. I'm thinking a more solid medium-gray color. Who knows, we'll see...
I'm hoping that through my blog, people will come to better understand my painting process and hopefully help some other artists along the way. I'd love comments!
The Beginning...Had no idea what to do with the background but loved the crack in the cement!
The beginning of Tiger!
Close up of the beginning of Tiger. I usually work from light to dark in a designated area.
But sometimes with harsh white lines, I have to put them in as solid white, then come back with shading because it's so hard to lose pure white in a painting. Pure white easily gets distroyed, and one it's gone, it's gone.
This is what I had as of last night, Friday, June 8th at 11pm.
Tiger
Oil on Canvas
24x12-inches
I've been working on it for about 15 hours now...It's coming together pretty well. I was really worried about it when I first started the dog because I was afraid he wouldn't show up off the background. I'm happy with the dog so far. The colors have been a real challenge with the orange background, but it showing through has really accented the dog since he has a lot of browns and golds within his furr. I'm not completely happy with the background. I'll defintely go back and work on it once the dog's complete. Maybe it's just too painterly for me right now. I'm thinking a more solid medium-gray color. Who knows, we'll see...
I'm hoping that through my blog, people will come to better understand my painting process and hopefully help some other artists along the way. I'd love comments!
The Beginning...Had no idea what to do with the background but loved the crack in the cement!
The beginning of Tiger!
Close up of the beginning of Tiger. I usually work from light to dark in a designated area.
But sometimes with harsh white lines, I have to put them in as solid white, then come back with shading because it's so hard to lose pure white in a painting. Pure white easily gets distroyed, and one it's gone, it's gone.
This is what I had as of last night, Friday, June 8th at 11pm.
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