Tag: mountain

  • A big scale-up

    A big scale-up

    Put in time last night doing an underdrawing and putting some paint down on this 48×36″ panel. Lately i’ve been trying to just work on whatever i’m drawn to in the moment, and last night I was feeling this big one. I lost a little momentum looking for the right source photo. to work from.…

  • A very good painting session

    A very good painting session

    Everything about this roughly two hour painting session felt good. It had its ups and downs but more often than not I was experiencing a flow state. I succeeded in not overworking anything, and I now have a clear vision of where this painting will end. I am toying with a tone change in the…

  • Painting: River Through Mountains

    Painting: River Through Mountains

    I decided to relieve myself of the impulse to make another tonal, semi-representative work by forcing myself to work with a non-representative palette. I painted this over three sessions and I feel pretty good about it.

  • Mount Kazbek, Georgia

    Mount Kazbek, Georgia

    This source photo came via my friend John, who I met at my first tech job nearly 20 years ago. He has always inspired me. I haven’t seen him since he left for Seattle soon after we met, but I follow his world travels and mountain climbing adventures on Instagram. Someday i hope to reconnect…