New Years Art Resolutions, and my Blog is Moving!

 

"Park Trail #62" (pastel, 6x12 inches) bid or buy

 I wrote a really nice long inspirational New Years post today about painting more, and you can read it here! (or on my Patreon page.)

What I really want to say here is that my blog is moving! I'm retiring this location and continuing with the Daily Painting posts on my new website blog... 

(Update: Nah, don't go there either I decided not to use a website blog. Just go straight to my Patreon, EVERYTHING gets posted there!! 😃 And tons of free public posts to entertain you if you don't want to subscribe yet.)

But you can always find them also on my Patreon page, and on DailyPaintworks.

I won't delete this blog, I just won't post here any more. Thanks for being great fans! See ya around on the web in other places.

Happy New Year!

#1 of 21-in-31 "A Peaceful Morning Walk"

 

"A Peaceful Morning Walk" (pastel, 8x10 inches)

Available on my website unframed for a limited time. 

See progress pics here!

Day 21 of 30 - Park Trail #54

 

Day 21 of 30 paintings in June - "Park Trail #54" (pastel, 6x6 inches)

This was one of my triple-demo in my recent online workshop. I underpainted this at the same time as the Pug and another animal (to be posted tomorrow) and pasteled them in a row later that day.

See some progress pictures here!

See this piece and others like it at the #rockportartfest hosted by @rockportartcenter located right on the beautiful coast of Texas!

$300 includes frame and US shipping

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Park Trail #53

 

"Park Trail #53" (pastel, 8x8, sold)

 

This one was my one landscape demo for the recent workshop with MidAmerica Pastel Society. I don't do a whole lot of landscapes, but when I do I just love painting pathways (as evidenced by the "#53" on this one ;) And I love dappled light through the trees.

 

I don't much enjoy tree trunks as a major subject however, so I kept these trunks simple. As usual in my work, it's more about the light!

 

I didn't quite finish this painting in the time I had allotted myself for the demo, so I finished it a few days later.

See some of the progress pics on this public Patreon post!

 

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Day 9 - Parked Tree

"Parked Tree" (pastel, 12x9 inches) click here to buy

Day 9?

Well, a week ago I said I'd take the Daily Painting thing one day at a time, and I made it a week. I had an epiphany yesterday while working on my newest batch of underpaintings. Read about it HERE!

Meanwhile, to fill in for today is "Parked Tree" which was another of my plein air pieces from the AIS paintout last month. The day's wanderings had brought me to the Wildseed Farms, but it had rained the day before and all of my painting stuff was scattered about my vehicle from having painted from the driver's seat (See "Parked on a Rainy Afternoon.") I got to the farms and while I debated how to gather it all up I got distracted by this backlit tree at the edge of the parking lot, and decided I could just leave all the stuff where it was and paint from the car again!

 I decided I didn't like the distant bushes/trees, so I took them out.

Creek at Willow City Loop

"Creek at Willow City Loop" (pastel, 8x10 inches)

This was the first of my plein air paintings last week in Fredericksburg, during the AIS paint out. A die-hard plein air painter I am NOT! I worked around the general rainy-ness of the day by scoping out the creek area with my camera as a viewfinder first, then retreating to my car to paint my chosen viewpoint.

I sketched the composition from one of the photos, and was able to pretty much catch the the colors from the slightly higher angle of the same scene... It was a little awkward, but it worked, and I stayed dry!

Day 31 - West Texas #5

"West Texas #5" (pastel, 5x7 inches)

Day 31 of my 31-in-31 in January 2020! YAY, I did it!!

And I did manage to find one last old board that already had a brushed-off old painting on it. This was a 5x7 Ampersand Pastelbord, and I brought up the values with some Art Spectrum off-white pigment ink, which was amazingly opaque. Fun to work with and giving me all kinds of ideas!

 These two colors in the pots above are two of the combos of toned pumice primers that I've been working with. The gold color is a mix of some of the Art Spectrum pigmented ink yellows and gold ochre mixed into the Art Spectrum clear multimedia & pastel primer (which contains pumice.)
The blue is some Golden brand fluid acrylic ultramarine mixed with the Golden brand fine pumice gel.
I also used a bit of Art Spectrum's terra cotta multimedia & pastel primer, thinned down in some of their clear primer. (Yes... the three primaries, all you need! :)

Then, for the pastel...

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Day 30 - Road Sketch #36

"Road Sketch #36" (pastel, 5x3 inches)

Day 30 of my 31-in-31 of January!

This is the utility easement at the back edge of the neighborhood next to mine. I like to walk there.

I did find one more 3x5 ancient landscape in my shelves that I was happy to turn into something more current. :)

Day 24 - Park Trail #50

"Park Trail #50" (pastel, 5x7 inches) sold

Day 24 of my 31-in-31 of January!

The final demo from last weekend's workshop. Now I MUST get out to my studio and PAINT!!