Giorgio Morandi
One can travel the world and see nothing. To achieve understanding, it is necessary not to see many things but to look hard at what you do see. -Giorgio Morandi
Month: September 2016
Painting 1: day 3, blocking-in and scumbling
With the foreground and shadows roughly blocked in, my goal today is to begin on the lighter areas and the sky. This requires blocking in the darker areas of th...
Painting 1: day 2, blocking-in shadows
The finished painting will have an extreme level of contrast between the light of the sky and the back-lit, silhouetted shadows of the foreground. It is importa...
Painting 1: day 1, the underpainting
I’ve decided to use a previous study as the compositional basis for the first painting of the series. The first stage of my painting process typically inv...
Vija Celmins
I feel that the image is just a sort of armature on which I hang my marks and make my art. -Vija Celmins
Sketchbook Study with FW inks
Intrigued with some of the elements of my previous study, I decide to continue working with images of the sky and atmosphere. I reviewed my photos from my most ...
Agnes Martin
The adventurous state of mind is a high house. To enjoy life the adventurous state of mind must be grasped and maintained. The essential feature of adventure is...
Sketchbook Study with FW inks
Using the oil paint studies as a starting point, I’m jumping into the world of acrylic based pigmented inks. The first step is to familiarize myself with ...