I don’t think I’ve announced it here on the blog yet, but this summer I finally got some of my art into a local shop called Moab Made. It’s a shop for local artists to sell and display their work. I feel like it’s a bit less formal than a gallery, but it works basically…
Category: Works in Progress
Prioritizing Art
Now that life has slowed back down to a normal pace, I think I’m going to try to be consistent with this blog again. I made a few attempts earlier this year but was already too overloaded with obligations for it to stick. Now that October is over, things are slowing down and I feel…
Framing Some Old Work
After buying a Logan mat cutter at the end of last week, I finally got around to cutting some mats. Last year when I started painting with gouache, I painted on some randomly sized tiny pieces of paper that didn’t fit in any normal frame sizes. I think I painted so small because I wasn’t…
Revisiting an Old Painting
It has been a while since I’ve done a work in progress post. It has also been a while since I’ve done any oil painting. Be prepared. The photo above is from where I left this painting in 2017. This week I busted out the palette knives and went to town. Already it is looking…
Ginger Portrait Complete – Part 5
So, I’ve been working on this painting for quite a while now. I took a break from it for the Strada Easel Challenge because I was getting frustrated with it. When I did finally come back to it, I hated it. I hated it so much that I made the drastic decision to start over…
Ginger Portrait Part 4
I feel like I’m finally making some good progress with this painting. Although, I’ll probably paint over all of this a couple more times and say the same thing each time. In the previous version I had definitely used too strong of a purple for the shadows where I should have used a much more…
Ginger Portrait Part 3
It has been a while since I last posted about this portrait. Distractions, preoccupations, excuses… I’m back at it again and I think I’ve made some progress. It’s still relatively far away from completion, but It feels good to have worked on it. I readjusted the mouth again which could use a tad more adjustment…
Canyonlands Painting in Oil – Part 5
I think I’m finally getting somewhere with this painting. Although, it still doesn’t look a whole lot different from the last two posts. I darkened the middle background with lots of purples and a little blue too. It appears to have receded a bit into the distance with that. I also worked on getting…
Canyonlands Painting in Oil – Part 4
I really put some time into this painting this last week, but unfortunately, it doesn’t really look a whole lot different than it did last week. When I was uploading the picture, I briefly confused it with last week’s progress shot. My plan next week is to go in and glaze over a lot…
Canyonlands Painting in Oil – Part 3
Thought I abandoned this one? Nope. I just took a little break from oils for the Inktober challenge. I feel like I’ve finally made some decent progress on this painting. I finally painted in the center part of the scene and then went ahead and repainted everything else while I was at it except…
Canyonlands Painting in Oil – Part 2
I haven’t made it very far on this painting yet. As usual, life has been busy and I haven’t been the diligent artist that takes makes time for art. I’m relatively happy with the rocks in the foreground so far, but I may move things around a bit still. I think there is maybe…
Canyonlands Painting in Oil – Part 1
I loved last week’s watercolor version of this painting so much that I decided to try it again in oil. This one will be a studio painting instead of plein air though. I don’t have any sort of set up for oil plein air, so I don’t think it would go…