Tag: painting

  • New Beginning

    New Beginning

    Started a new painting last night. I had intended to do the same scene again but after making that little waterfall painting the other night, I changed my mind. Gotta move on. I’ll be painting more loosely and following my intuition.

  • Flood Reflections at Rutherford-Sayre Park, Chicago

    Flood Reflections at Rutherford-Sayre Park, Chicago

    I finished this painting and I’m feeling pretty good about it. The goal was to paint 2 foot square acrylic version of the very small gouache painting I made last year (below), using only the painting as a reference rather than the original photo reference.

  • What am I trying to achieve?

    As I was reflecting on the work I’m doing right now and my painting plans for this year, I became very certain that my primary goal is this: I want to learn to make mid-scale acrylic landscape paintings with a process and outcome that represent my sensibility. The most important thing about framing the goal…

  • Getting to the home stretch

    Getting to the home stretch

  • Tree woes

    Tree woes

    One of the challenges in making this painting based upon the 7x7cm landscape I painted is that there are times when I need to use my imagination to add detail in service of the painting, rather than solely base my painting from the small source. I went into this tree with some measure of caution,…

  • Painting doodles

    Painting doodles

  • Bring in the lights

    Bring in the lights

  • Larger landscapes (process)

    Larger landscapes (process)

    I’ve been planning to do larger, acrylic on wood versions of some of the smaller landscapes I did earlier last year. The idea is to use the small painting as the source rather than the original photograph. Below are the first three sittings. I like where it’s headed.

  • Indonesia

    Indonesia

    This subject comes by way of my old friend Vineetha. When we met up last summer I asked her what the best place she ever traveled to was. Answer: Indonesia. After looking it up I was inspired to make a painting—I hope to go there some day.