So I cheated a little this past month.That’s how I’m starting June. I had planned to share an oil painting I’ve been working on, but things aren’t going well there. It may need a complete reworking, so I’m putting it aside for a while. Instead, I’m cheating a bit and using a small charcoal drawing … Read more
On a plane ride back from visiting my daughter’s family, I was sketching from a photo on my phone of our six-month-old granddaughter. During that quiet, awkward period while waiting to “deplane” (what a strange word), a woman across the aisle commented on my sketch. I hadn’t realized she could see what I was doing, … Read more
Back to working with basic values and lines, I recently created this small drawing that I will put in my “finished works” gallery. For this piece, I went back to just the pencil and lines creating the values I needed. Keeping it small, (roughly 8″x10″), it didn’t take the many hours that some of my … Read more
I have been playing around with this idea for some time in the sketchbooks. I finally figured it is done. It is an oil painting on a plywood panel measuring 16″ by 20″. It seems the young people I have around me have become the smarter ones. They remind me of the important things in … Read more
Going through the second half of the year or so, looking at some of the sketches I have done… most of these have been posted on my instagram page close to the date they were completed. I have added the better ones to my webpage https://3fb.77c.myftpupload.com/sketches/ I will work on adding them to my pinterest … Read more
I have been spending a lot of my daily sketch time on a small oil painting instead. Seems like if I am going to try to learn more about oil painting skills, working small is a good way to get some finished projects behind me and if they don’t work out, I won’t have used … Read more
This is a door project I have been working on. It is basically a frame and raised panel door made of Alder. I made several sketches before I started , this is what we settled on: At this point the hard part is to be patient and not rush it. It needs to take the … Read more
Here are my sketchbook pages from the first figure drawing session of the year, last Saturday the 16 of January 2021 at Art Works in Eagan. I just brought a simple sketch book and an ink pen with water soluble ink and a water brush to push it around a little bit. I tried to … Read more
Here are some of my better sketches and I will also put them on the sketchbooks page on the website, (a page that has been neglected lately). Some of these I think actually turned out OK. I am happy with the volume of sketching I accomplished over the last 365 days or so. Still not … Read more
