'AGUA FRIA REFLECTIONS'

The early morning sky just after sunrise, reflected pink light in the Agua Fria creek.


oil on panel

8" X 10"

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RUSHING AGUA FRIA

This was painted after the spring rains in the Sierra foothills. The water was rushing over the slate- colored rocks in mini-waterfalls. I tried to get the quality of the light and energy while wondering if any wild cats or bears might be watching!

Oil on board

8 X 10"

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RIDGE VIEW

This was a distant view in the Sierra foothills on a Spring afternoon.  I was thinking about the contrast of soft rolling hills and floating cloud with the sharp value changes of the craggy rock ridge-line. I used various shades of conte chalks from black to white on a grey primed heavy weight paper.

Conte pastel on paper

9" X 12"

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RED BUD TREE ON A GREY DAY

This is the same view of the red bud tree on a ridge overlooking the Sierra foot hills... painted on a very overcast day. I held my palette knife up to the view of sky, tree and land to really try to get the colors to approximate what I saw.

Oil on canvas board

11" X 14"

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 RED BUD TREE

I painted this blooming red bud tree on a fully sunlit spring afternoon on a ridge in the Sierra foothills. The orange patch on the distant hill is a field of California poppies. I was trying to match the colors as they appeared to me. 

Oil on canvas board

11" X 14"

 

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FIGURE 44

A small painting done in one session with model, Merav. Sometimes fast is best!

5" X 7"

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BLOCK STUDY

This seems simple, but was tricky.  I chose to make the bright blue table cloth increase in saturation in the distance, which is not usually done. Usually with distance, chroma goes down, but I had to work with that bright red block on top and so it needed to match the intensity. I guess you had to be there. Block studies are great for clarifying painting issues and anyway I like the struggle.

Oil on hardboard panel

5" X 7"

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PORTRAIT OF JUDITH

Since taking Al Tofanelli's portrait class at l'Atelier aux Couleurs in Petaluma, I have been painting some portraits of the models at my Wednesday night group. I hope I got a likeness of beautiful Judith.

11" X 14"

Oil on canvas board

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FIGURE STUDY 43

This was a quick color study of a life-model, Dave, who had a great collection of hats.

Oil on canvas board

9" X 12"

PORTRAIT OF JUSTIN

A Study in Grey

Oil on Canvas Board

12" X 16"

I was working on seeing the values and painting edges better in this study from life. I just loved his hair, so much a part of his whole persona.

FIGURE 42

This was a study in grey tones from my weekly figure group. It was interesting for me to translate her fair skin and red hair into value tones.

Oil on board

5" X 7"

FIGURE 41, NUDE STUDY IN BLACK AND WHITE

Oil on hardboard

5" X 7"

MAN IN HAT

A study in black and white

Oil on canvas board

9" X 12"

 QUICK HEAD STUDY IN GREY TONES

Another fast one

8" X 10"

Oil on paper 

SECOND QUICK STUDY

Oil on Paper

8" X 10"

QUICK HEAD STUDY 1

I saved some recent 15 minute quick sketches. I like this one.

Oil on grey paper

8" X 10"

FIGURE 40

Working in greys to challenge myself to try to portray the light on skin and paint a black hat in light and shadow without color. This was done in one session- so working quickly. I was learning  to start with an overall light tone and an overall dark tone, in the medium range. Then there is room to push the darkest darks and lightest lights, while keeping the overall dark-light pattern distinct. If that makes sense!

5" X 7 "

Oil on board

QUICK HEAD STUDY    

This is more tonal quick study work. The idea is to do 'lots of starts' and cover many square miles of canvas in order to make progress. This was a 15 minute study and while a little rough, I like it.

Oil on board    

                                                                                  

8" X 10"

TONAL PORTRAIT STUDY

The next several postings I make will be of the tonal studies that I painted while taking Alfredo Tofanelli's class. In this study was trying to find the darkest darks and lightest lights, the movement of light. The lightest light was on her earlobe, but I had to tone it down for the sake of the painting looking 'right'. This is always an issue in painting- whether to be true to what you see, or true to the correctness of the way the painting reads.

Oil on board

9" X 12"

'FIGURE 39'

It was an interesting coincidence that we set this up with drapes as prop- and the model, who is also an actress, looks like she is posed on stage. Its rare to find a figure model who is willing to stand in a pose for 2 hours. Bravo!

Oil on canvas board

11" X 14"