Category Archives: Paintings

Today I worked on darkening the sky to the right of the clouds, the sea and the island. I’m not even close to completing the sea and I really must go and look at the ocean, but this is a … Continue reading →

  Here’s the first sweep at the sky, an ultramarine blue over the white, easy on the medium. I’ll darken the sky a lot more because it’s way too bright right now and then I’ll work some details into the … Continue reading →

I’ve been working on the painting today after what seems like a very long break; it feels good to be back in the studio after all the work on the bottle piece.   The colour is a little off in … Continue reading →

Today’s progress. She’s wearing her aviator goggles now, and a triangular necklace. I added much more definition into the face and flying helmet and knifed a layer of flesh tones onto the man, who is taking his proper place in … Continue reading →

No time! In an all too fast ten minute space I managed to add a scraped on coat of Raw Sienna to the flying helmet, which is beginning to approach its finished sheepskin appearance. I laid on the paint then … Continue reading →

I used the knife to develop the surface of the skin of both figures.  The woman in the foreground needs more work than the man, because she’s so much closer to the viewer. I darkened the rock surface and added … Continue reading →

I spent a satisfying morning adding the first layer of flesh colour into the skin of the two figures, then took out the green / brown ground with a Payne’s grey brushed on and pushed with a nasty old dried out house … Continue reading →

I had little time to paint today, but did manage to darken the rocks on the right hand side, and to figure out the position of the unfolded box on the left of the female in the foreground. I spend … Continue reading →

Here’s the result of the morning’s work. I spent some time figuring out where the composition is going – I will place an object in the left side to bring the eye back up to the fellow on the left; … Continue reading →

A good days work. Here’s where I left it this afternoon. Laying down the first layer of the head went well; some Nerdrum influence there, I think! By chance, the head ended up on top of the apron from the earlier figure, … Continue reading →