Works in Progress

Here are several paintings currently in progress, all oil, and all except the iris are 24x36".

Silk Painting

Each December, it seems, I pick up a new technique, and spend my winter break learning it.  It helps to have an extended period of time to just focus on the new skills needed for that technique.

This year, I'm working on silk painting, and the way I go about it is experiment, experiment, experiment.  Watch videos, read blogs, try things that may be disastrous, try something you think won't work and learn why it doesn't work.  Make happy accidents.  I've been at it about a month now and, after a few dozen scarves, am getting pretty comfortable with the technique.  I hope, though, to keep at it and get some pretty interesting pieces done!

More Tile Paintings

Sleeping Wolf, Oil on Stone, 3x6 inches

Lorikeet, Oil on Granite, 4x4 inches.

Egret on a Rope

Egret on a Rope, oil on stone, 4x4".

Here is a brand new tile painting - oil on cream-colored marble.  It is 4x4", and has a gold border.

Painting Locke

So I found a Guerrilla Painter 9x12 pochade box on clearance, which meant I had to take it for a test drive this weekend!  I went to Locke, CA, with the Sacramento Plein Air Painters meetup group.  Locke is a turn of the century old-west town south of Sacramento, now owned by the CA State Parks department.

This is 3 hours of work on location - I might work on this painting some more the next time I go to Locke, as I can't use my usual technique of layering during a single session of plein air.  This is painted on a 12x12" sheet of gessoed Dibond aluminum.

Oh yeah, and the pochade box?  Nice.  :)

Mini Paintings

Here are 2 more miniature paintings finished, these will be varnished and wire-wrapped as pendants.

The tiger is approx. 1 1/4" x 1 1/2", and the egret is 1" x 2 1/4".

More Pendants

More pendants are coming!  The unwrapped paintings are still in the underlayer stage, and still need 1-2 more painting sessions to finish.  The pendant blanks have all been sanded and are almost ready for painting.

Most of these are 1-2 inches in size.  I'm using Golden Open Acrylics for this project and the wire wrap is silver-filled.  My usual brushes and a penny for size comparison.  :)