Noelle book cat

Noelle on top of one of my many bookcases...she likes to sun herself under the light.

Hmmm..what's this?

New Landscape

Painted this landscape this week.

Landscape Abstract

A new landscape abstract, I just painted this landscape playing with an abstract style. The photo reference is so detailed and intense it does not make a very good reference photo for painting, but I love the pond and the refections so I decided to paint the picture concentrating on color and shapes working in an abstract way.....I like it and as I move it around my studio my eyes keep falling on it.  I does look better in person.

Painting Oil Portrait Practice

I have not written in my blog for a while but I have been working on a lot of new art projects, I'm going to post a few new pictures that I've been doing mainly concentrating on portraits. Here is an example; I'm still working on. Whis is still a practice I'm pretty new at painting portraits with oils I usually only draw them in charcoal or pastels and have just begun to start working with them in oil paints. I like to work in the classic style of portrait painting. I haven't had my portrait class this session, I'm hoping to have a live model soon. I have been working from photographs which is very hard. I really enjoyed working with a live model you really get to see the nuances in the face that you miss with the photographs and I'm hoping to start painting from a live model again.