Stop to Paint the Roses

Ahh...back to painting!  Received a sample pack of 6x8 RayMar panels this week.  The pack has four different types of panels: smooth cotton canvas, medium cotton canvas, single primed linen and double primed linen.  Tonights effort was on the medium cotton canvas...love it!  This is just from a picture I took up at the Portland Rose Gardens this past summer.  Went with a slightly different red than what is usually on my palette.  Most the pinks are created using Permanent Rose.  The darker reds in the background are Perylene Red...I really dig that red.  Anyhow, hope you enjoy.

6 x 8 RayMar panel

Morgan's Drawings

So here's a couple of drawings my oldest daughter, Morgan, did.  I particularly like the gingerbread house, but she's quite the undersea  drawer too.   She loves to draw dolphins and whales...not surprising given she wants to be a marine biologist when she grows up.  Guess I better refresh my scuba diving skills sometime soon...I have a feeling this girls going to be diver someday!

Last night and tonight - WIP

Worked on my San Xavier painting last night and Backward Glance painting (pony) tonight.  Still lot's of work to do on the San Xavier painting, but I think I've pushed the pony painting about as far as it'll go.  So two enjoyable evenings in one post!

San Xavier del Bac Mission - WIP

Just got back from visiting my dad and stepmom down in Tucson.  Met my sister and her husband down there also.  We had a wonderful four days with lot's of site seeing and just enjoying the company of family.  One of the places we visited was San Xavier del Bac Mission.  While wandering around the mission my dad spotted a very cool view of one of the small buildings between two walls, one newly stuccoed and one rather dilapidated.  He has an excellent eye for good compositions.  So tonight I started a painting of this photo.  So far not much to see but the underpainting.

It'll be fun to see where this one goes.  9"x12" Ray Mar panel.

Another Wood River Painting

Haven't painted in quite some time.  Actually, I've been doing some drawing, but not paintings.  So tonight I pulled out a small canvas board and did this one.  Can't say I'm particularly pleased with it, but what do you expect when you haven't painted for awhile, right?!  9x12 on canvas board.

Just sketch what's in front of ya!

Just did a little sketching at the kitchen table today.  Nothin' fancy.

Backward Glance II - WIP

Okay, so I decided the last painting I did of this pony looked more like one of those funky horse-like creatures in the movie Avatar.  So I'm taking another crack at it and at the same time zooming in on the pony so he takes up more of the canvas.  I'm liking it much better!  Still some work to do, but here's a sequence of shots.  I didn't start with a wash like I usually do.