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
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
7-16-22 I am trying to work larger on the page with this. Seems like I start bigger usually and then things shrink down as I get more accurate with the forms. So I tend to work with small compartments of the page. Here I tried to start large and stay large. Some success I guess. … 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