Daily Painting 10.31.2009

Day 27 - 6X8 oil painting of Honfleur Harbor in France. Completed in about 1 hour from a photo reference. I'm happy with the loose brush work but composition could be better. The water line kind of breaks the painting into two equal halves.

Daily Painting 10.30.2009

Day 26 - 8X6 oil painting of a field with apple blossoms. Completed in about 1/2 hour. Tried to keep this very abstract and loose by limiting myself to 1/2 hour and color mixing very fast with large filbert brushes.

Daily Painting 10.29.2009

Day 25 - 6X8 oil painting. Completed in 1 hour from a photo reference. Really tried to be loose with the brush work on this one.

Daily Painting 10.28.2009

No painting today. Busy at my day job and was very tired tonight. May need to try and paint in the morning before work sometimes.

Daily Painting 10.27.2009

Day 23 - 6X8 oil painting of a salt water marsh. Completed in about 1 hour from a photo reference.

Daily Painting 10.26.09

Day 22 - 6X8 oil painting of Newport Harbor, RI at sunset. Completed in 1 hour from a photo reference.

Daily Painting 10.25.09

Day 21 - 5X7 oil painting. Completed in 1 hour from a photograph of a stream at Bird Park in Walpole MA.

Daily Painting 10.24.09

No Painting today - my daughter is not feeling well so I just can't get away to work on a painting. Going to try and post two tomorrow if everyone is feeling better!

Daily Painting 10.23.09

Day 19 - 5X7 oil painting of sunset on the Maine Coast in Acadia National Park. This was completed in less than an hour using a photo reference but I modified 99% of the picture. I wanted to practice doing some sunset skies so I wasn't too interested in providing much if any detail of the foreground.

Daily Painting 10.22.09

Day 18 - 5X7 oil painting of the sun shinning through trees. Used a photo reference to paint this in about 1 hour.

Daily Painting 10.21.09

Day 17 - 8X10 oil painting of Mont St Michele. I completed this in about 1 hour. I used a photo reference that I took at sunset while leaving Mont St Michele.

Daily Painting 10.20.09

Day 16 - 6x6 oil painting of Mont St Michele in France. Painted from photo refernce I took while on vacation.

Daily Painting 10.19.09

Day 15 - oil painting on board. This painting was completed in about 1 hour. I painted it from a photo that I took of a mountain in Alaska. I liked how the cloud was drifting across the prairie and the light and shadows on the snow topped mountain.

I'm pretty happy with this one. I used a large Filbert brush for 95% of the painting and I feel this made the biggest impact. It allowed me to focus on the major forms and to create interesting brushwork.

Daily Painting 10.18.09

Day 14 - 5X6 oil painting on canvas. Completed this painting in 1 hour. Used a photo from an art magazine. Scene was originally done by and artist named Kevin Macpherson.

This was a great exercise for testing my paint mixing abilities. I believe I was able to match most of the color notes he used although the bushes in the foreground could have been a bit brighter.

Daily Painting 10.17.09

Day 13 - 5X6 oil painting. Completed in about 1 1/2 hours. From photograph. I'm happy with the mountains and some of the foreground but since this is such a small canvas it was necessary to keep most of the shapes very abstract. Some of the shapes in the foreground could be better. Could have spent more time sketching out the shapes in the foreground because there is a lot going on in a small 5X6 area.

Daily Paintng 10.16.09

Day 12 - 8X10 oil painting. Completed in about 1 1/2 hours. I think the background trees came out well but could use more work. The foreground snow could use more contrast i.e. yellows and blues. Also, the large rock in the upper left hand side could stand out more from the surounding snow.

Seems the hardest thing for me is allowing myself only a couple hours at the most for each painting but with time I think more of my work will be able to express what I'm after in that period of time.

Daily Paintng 10.15.09

Day 11 - 8x10 oil painting of Maine Coast. Completed this in less than 1 hour using a photo reference.

Daily Paintng 10.14.09

Day 10 - 8X10 oil painting of an overcast day on the Maine Coast. Completed this painting in less than 1 hour. Started painting at 0700 in the morning so I could be sure to get my daily painting completed for the day. I'm happy with the color tones and atmosphere with this painting. The composition is pleasing to the eye by leading the viewer down the rocky beach.

Daily Paintng 10.13.09

Day 9 - 6X8 oil sketch. Completed this painting in about 1 hour. Also worked on putting final touches on another painting so just wanted to get a fast new painting in for the day.

Daily Painting 10.12.09

Day 8 - 6x8 oil painting. I completed this in about two hours. I was inspired by a photograph I took while hiking one early winter's morning. I tried to capture the low early morning sunlight coming through the trees and the interesting shadows and colors of the fallen snow.

Although I worked with a photo, I just used it as insperation and not to copy every detail. I have found that directly working or copying a photo can affect the final look of the painting by not providing the emotional connection with the viewer.

Daily Paintng 10.11.09

Day 7 - 8X10 Oil painting of Foxboro Stadium. Completed in about 3 hours. May do some more detail work sometime but had to call it a night. (actually just noticed that the building on the right needs some detail to break-up the large dark area). Also close to midnight and that would mean I missed a painting for the day if I didn't upload something.

Also, keep an eye out for an upcoming Plein Air Painting Event at Foxboro Patriot's Place that I will be attending. Great opportunity to see works in progress and even purchase some work directly from the artists.

Daily Paintng 10.10.09

SOLD

Day 6, 10/10/2009 - 4X12 oil sketch, Marshfield Mass. Palette of Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Red Light, Ult Blue, Burnt Siens, Aliz Crimson, Titanium White.Worked on this for 2 hours. I think this one may be worthy to frame with an hour or two more of work tomorrow. Will post final version when done and will continue to create a new painting tomorrow as well.

10/13/2009 - worked on some additional detail today to finish this painting off. Final image above.

11/14/2009 - donated this painting to an art auction to benefit the Walpole MA library. It sold for double the asking price!

Daily Painting 10.9.2009

5X5 oil sketch of Pear.

Daily Painting 10.8.2009

Day 4, 10/8/2009 - 6X8 oil sketch, Oguinquit Maine from photo references. Palette of Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Red Light, Ult Blue, Burnt Siens, Titanium White.Feeling good about this one. Worked on this one for almost 3 hours. Got carried away orking the rocks in the foreground. Colors are much brighter when looking at the painting in person. A lot of cool orange and red notes. Will work on being looser with the brush work and creating more lost and found edges within the painting. I tend to put in too much detail at times and should suggest forms within the painting and let the viewer's mind fill in the detail. Overall better than yesterday's.