Day 49 - 8X6 oil on canvas. Painted this in less than one hour. Tried to work as fast as possible and with a monochromatic value scale. Just mixed Ult blue, cad red light, and cad Yellow + white.Happy with the rainy day feel of this painting. Can see some perspective issues here and there that can be fixed given more time.
Day 47 - oil painting sketch of marsh. This is a 5X7 oil of a marsh I have been trying to expand into a larger painting in the studio. Needed to step back and paint a few quick studies to get focused again. Actually have not posted in about 4 days. Had to work overnight Thursday and it took a couple days to recover enough to get painting again.Heading to the Cape tomorrow for work and plan on bringing my pochade box and maybe whipping out a couple oil sketches on my lunch break
Day 42 - Wasn't able to get a completed daily painting in today but started working on this one. This is larger than I have been working (12X16) on hardboard with mounted Belgium linen - very nice to paint on but expensive! Like the way this is coming. Just blocking in the darks at this point and highlighting the focal point of the painting on the right (sunny distant field). Hope to have this finished tomorrow or the next day. Want to keep a alla prima/plein air look and feel to this painting.
Day 41 - 8x6 oil painting of Boston from Pete's Hill in the Arnold Arboretum. Painted en plein air from 1200-1300. Very windy and kind of cold on the hill. Usually when painting outside in public you just worry about people talking to you for an hour but this time I sat with the Pochade painting box on my lap and just tried not to get bitten by all the dogs unleashed by their owners!
Day 40 - 6x6 oil painting of a church across the street from my house. Completed en plein air on my porch tonight. Photo of the piece could be better but the glare on the wet oil paint is killer for the camera. Really like this night scene. Had to add the telephone pole in front to create a more interesting composition and the pole is in the form of a cross and which seems fitting in a painting where the subject is a church.
Day 38 - 8x6 oil painting of pond in Bird Park near my house in Walpole MA. Painted on-site (plein air) in 1 hour between 12 and 1pm. Very cloudy and cool. Think I was able to capture the feeling of the fall day in the short amount of time.
Day 37 - 6x8 oil painting of old tree in Arnold Arboretum in Boston, MA. Painted on-site (plein air) in approx an hour. Made some final changes in my studio prior to uploading image.
Day 35 - 8x6 oil of church across the street from my house. Painted this in 1 hour from my porch. Could use more refining and minor corrections in perspective but limited myself to 1 hour and I'm sticking to it....
Day 34 - oil painting of marsh behind Bass Pro Shop in Foxborough MA. Completed on site in 1 hour between 1300-1400. Enjoyed doing this one on such a nice day. Would like to have gotten a little darker shadows in the foreground. May go back tomorrow morning to get another one in this weekend.
Day 32 - 6x8 oil painting of a toy horse. Spent about 1 1/2 hours on this. Could use a lot more work but limiting myself to just a couple hours at the most for each daily painting. Could have used more bold brushwork and made each stroke of the brush stand on it's own. Just need to loosen up a little.
Day 31 - 6X8 oil painting of the Italian Riviera. Completed in 1 hour from a photo reference. Enjoyed painting this one. Brought back a lot of great memories about my honeymoon.
Day 29 - 6X8 oil painting of Honfleur Harbor France. Completed in about 2 hours from a photo reference. This is the same subject as Day 27. I wanted to improve on the technique of using abstract forms and soft edges for the buildings while keeping hard edges for the carousel so the viewers eyes are drawn there. Overall, this one has a nice feel to it however the digital photo of the painting could be much better.
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.
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.
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.
Day 23 - 6X8 oil painting of a salt water marsh. Completed in about 1 hour from a photo reference.
Day 22 - 6X8 oil painting of Newport Harbor, RI at sunset. Completed in 1 hour from a photo reference.
Day 21 - 5X7 oil painting. Completed in 1 hour from a photograph of a stream at Bird Park in Walpole MA.
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.
Day 18 - 5X7 oil painting of the sun shinning through trees. Used a photo reference to paint this in about 1 hour.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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