Tag: wood

  • Wisconsin Waterfall

    Wisconsin Waterfall

    Last night I found a couple of old paintings from 2002, and I had the overwhelming urge to paint over one of them.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Iceland painting

    Iceland painting

    I’ve been wanting to experiment with painting landscapes for a long time now, and i finally bit the bullet and picked a photo from our anniversary trip to Iceland in 2010 to paint from and present to my lovely bride for an anniversary gift. Painting with gouache is really different than acrylic in a number…

  • Little robot painting

    Little robot painting

    I made this little robot painting on wood for a family art project we were doing. Dang if i didn’t forget the prompt, but i think it was probably “robots”