Updating site

Within the next few months or so I will be updating the gallery area of this site. The change will give more space to each individual painting, allowing for a paragraph or two about the piece as well as a close up detail of the work.

It will also allow me an area to display and sell all my studies in one spot. The studies will be priced between $50 and $100, allowing people to purchase a piece of mine more economically.

Plein Air :: De Boville Slough

Great weather for painting today. Warm, bright, little wind and overcast.

I headed out to De Boville Slough to find a spot to paint the water. I set up in the soon to be overgrown grass and faced my box east.

I painted for about two hours with a final result I am happy with but, in reflection, contained some errors in value. Oh well, it’s a learning process.

  

Pochade Box :: Newest Toy

Since I am enjoying oil painting so much I wanted a way to be portable so I can paint ouside on vacation or on a day trip to the park.

I research pochade boxes for at least four months before deciding on the boxes produced by Alla Prima Pochade Boxes by Ben Haggett. Specifically, the ‘Yellowstone‘. His boxes are beautifully built, but best of all, highly functional. His use of magnets to keep doors closed, drawers from pulling out and as a height adjustment for the panel retention system is ingenuous. It all mounts onto a tripod for stability and ease of height adjustment.

There is storage for four 11×14, 1/8" panels, or two 11×14 panels and two 6×8 panels, or… the combinations are endless. You can see into the top of the case in the images below.

The two drawers have ample space for your paints on one side and all your other goodies on the other. And, as you can see below, there is brush storage across the front inside of the cover. I have four in the cover below, but I have had six in total at one time.

Since I have got it, I have taken it out twice so far. I have to say it has been a great experience painting outside trying to capture the light.

I’ll be taking this box with me to my Mike Svob workshop in August as well as to Ontario and the States this summer with the hopes of getting some painting in.

I would recomment this box hands down over any of the other manufacturers out there!!!

 

 

      

One Voice :: Abstract :: Accepted into a Show

An old painting I did awhile back has recently been accepted into the ‘Abstract" show with the FCA.

It took me less than an hour to block in the main aspects of the painting, but it took three days to complete it. Getting the yellow streak in the spot that just felt right took a lot of effort.

The painting represents how one voice, indicated by the yellow, in a sea of existing thinking is needed to start change.

The painting will be on display and sale at the FCA Gallery between May 5 – 17, 2009.

Latest Candy Apple :: Pomme :: Accepted into Show

This latest candy apple I just finished was recently accepted into the ‘Still Life" show with the FCA. 

The painting, Pomme, will be on display and sale at the FCA Gallery between April 21 – May 3, 2009. Stop in and enjoy all the beautiful work that I am sure will be there.