Morning exercise

Colored pencil on Rives BFK Gray

Swimming along

I enjoyed doing this one.

Finished roses (slides)

Good warm-up exercise for getting back into some serious colored pencil work.

Koi

Here is another template I designed, thought I would give it a try....almost done...

Roses

 

"25 Roses" is one of the few designs I created for someone who asked me about "Adult Coloring".

I think I will start coloring one rose a day..... will post it when done.

"The Elements of Drawing"

“All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.”   John Ruskin

Roadside revisited

Revisited this Oil Pastel from last year, made a few minor changes and it is looking better.  Think I will keep at it a little longer....

The Paths

Mixed media

Awaking

Acrylic on canvas  in progress

Mark Making

Water-soluble Oil Pastel on canvas

Acrylic on paper

Printmaking

Revisiting an old skill - relief printmaking.
Spent a few hours this morning planning and starting a linoleum for a reduction print.  It has been years since I worked on a piece of linoleum last, thought it would be hard to start up again, but once I had the template done it was easy to flow through the beginning process. In less than two hours I was cutting the image.  It was exhilarating having a cutting tool in my hands again.  I think I will plan on a few more relief prints and see where it will lead to.

Simplified

Masters of Art

One of the contemporary artists I admire is Richard Diebenkorn. 
No matter what subject or style he worked on, be it figure, landscape or still life, representational or abstract, drawing was always the most crucial part of his artistic process.   He painted lines as well as areas of colors.  Drawings in charcoal or ink would also be visible in some paintings.  There were no correct or incorrect lines, they were his thinking progression. He was thinking in drawing during the development of what he intended to say in his work.  His drawings revealed the exploration and learning process in which he created his paintings.  He sketched everywhere, everyday, whatever inspired him.
"All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression."   Richard Diebenkorn

Morning Exercise

A few quick doodling this morning

Eakins on "Simplify"

"In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting."   

Thomas Eakins

Work of a Master - answer

Woman Reading, Henri Matisse, oil on canvas, 1894
Owned by the Museum of Modern Art, Paris

Happy July 4th!

Started a new oil pastel on canvas, got carried away and spent all morning on it.
All I can say is: "It's a good start..."
Will post a photo when I get the chance to take a photo.

Sonata

Acrylic on canvas

Catching the Last Ray