seascape

This is an 11x14 oil
thanks for looking

Country Barn

24x30" acrylic on canvas. C&C welcome.

Hi everyone! Nice to see all the new paintings and everyone so enthusiastic and having fun! Brian is a great motivator and teacher. He is also my teacher and has helped me enormously with my paintings. Thanks again. Brian. Here is a painting I did yesterday. Still a few retouches to do.

I was inspired by Brians flowers. Decided to start painting over some existing paintings, so I needed to lay the colour on thick. I didn't do a value study. Might be a bit "globby" but it was fun.

Buying Vegtables

this is a 16x20 that i did after work today.In this one
i tried to create form with color and brushwork rather
than rendering and painting between the lines
Thanks for looking

DAFFODILS

...this one done this afternoon...30x36" oil/canvas....a bit messy don't know if I'm done yet, but will look at it later. Thanks for looking...comments welcome....Brian

COFFEE POT & APPLE

Another one this afternoon. Wanted to try a still life, haven't done one in quite some time.
Comments welcome. 16x20" oil/canvas ...........Brian

ELK

did this one this morning, a bit tight but whatever...16x20" oil/canvas. Comments welcome. Brian

This one was too big and too complicated for me. 16X20 I took the picture this morning, the light was incredibly strong. I don't like working from pictures, I can't see the colour, and they come out like mud. I feel this is a start, I may try to rescue it when it dries in a couple of weeks. I prefered the value study and I am glad I have it as reference to use if I decide to go back in.

Julie

Commission 5'x6'

This is a large commission i just completed for a house in Tucson.
Thanks for looking

FISHIN'

A quick little one done today, boy it went fast after all the big ones.

Comments welcome, Brian

First post in a while

Hi Brian, this is the painting I was working on when Elliot was painting me. I'm not quite finished but since you were patiently waiting to see something from me I thought I'd post it now and get some advice before I finish up. I'm not crazy about my bushes in the front, the top deck on the left doesn't read so well and the window frames look a little un-painterly. If you or anyone else have any suggestions they would be more than welcome!

This is a little 12x12" (acrylic). Not sure if the dark "frame" in the composition works or not, but with all the contrast it was fun to do.

This is a bigger study, not done, but as far as I can go without the oils getting muddy. May revisit it intwo weeks when it's dry :) A still life, which I like because the colour is so much easier for me to see. I do the value study in acrylic. This one is 16X20 the smallest canvas I had on hand. It's called Black and Blue.....good name hey Brian? I find it a touch stiff not that beautiful, but a valuable study.

Hi all,

Elliot and Brian

Ok I did another little study. I didn't touch my set up, yes elliot it was my first still life, and my first time using oils, which I am really having fun with. They are both tiny at 9X12

The first one which you have seen was done at night with a strong halogen light shining on it, super easy to see all the different colours. The second one which I did this morning had a diffused overcast light. It was more difficult to see all those colours, but rather the "local" colour. I have not yet put in the slight shawdow which feels almost non existant, what you see is the slight reflection. But it is amazing to see them side by side, so totally differant, both beautiful in there own way.

FALL TREES (reworked)

Yes, this is the same painting that was here but only reworked, felt it had too much yellow and I was thrown off with the values , which in the photo are fairly close. Anyways, I'll give this one a rest for a while and then look at it again....36x60" oil/canvas. C&C welcome, Brian

First attempt at plein air. I thought it was very difficult. The painting seems wierd to me--any help?

Swans Taking flight

A 16x20 Acrylic I painted yesterday, in an old frame I found on ebay.

TREETOPS

This one done today 30x36" oil/canvas .... a bit messy, but had this toned canvas hanging around and thought I'd try this. Comments welcome. Brian

Wisteria Vine

A 12x16 acrylic that I am not quite done with. I had difficulty with this one because there was not a great deal of difference in value between the vine and the stone wall on the left. As Page has told me, sometimes photos are flawed. I think the photo was taken on a cloudy day. But I loved the composition so much I had to try painting it. Suggestions welcome, Brett