Kunamokst Mural :: Panel Received

I received the panel I had down as my first choice, number 201. I’ll be planning out the painting over the next week and hope to get started on it in early September.

To give more interest to the finished painting I am contemplating adding moulding paste to build up the surface and shape it like the object it is going to represent. Intrigued? More to come….

Mural Mosaic Project :: Kunamokst

I took the plunge and am participating in a Mural Mosaic project call Kunamokst (meaning "together" in Chinook) that involves painting a 12×12" wooden panel that will be used to make up a much larger mural. When finished the mural can be seen online or in person on Galiano Island after it gets installed.

I’ve selected the three panels that I would prefer to work on and they will send me one out of my choices. I have a strong preference to what panel I want to paint as the painting came together as soon as I saw it. The other choices intrigued me but nothing has come to mind for a painting. Keep those fingers crossed.

I’ll update my blog when I get the panel and also on the progression of the painting.

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!!!