Bird sketches

Some watercolor and gouache work based on photos, trying to get the hang of the medium.

Maguire Gardens 11_21_10

Painting from Maguire Gardens near the LA overpass. A little gouache and watercolor sketch. I did tweak it a tiny bit in photoshop, but only a little.

Stunt Rd painting 11_14_10

It's pretty hard to get a good color correction for oil paintings sometimes. The background was washy, but appears a little faded instead below. I was using multiple levels of curves and color balance adjustment layers, but I was doing so much digital work I ended up doing a little paintover (above).

A little painting off of Stunt Rd, Santa Monica last Sunday. The last of my 6" x 8"s.

Sunday Painting Posse paintings.

10/10/10 Santa Monica Catholic Church

10/03/10 Chinatown - Chunking Plaza

Sorry for the delay. Here's the latest Sunday Painting Posse paintings.

El Matador photos - art at high tide.

It totally looks like I'm painting waves here.
Ordinarily, I face my subject, but the sun would've been all over me, so I angled my canvas away from it. I see from this photo though that my palette was still in sunlight though. Rats.

You can see the size of my painting. I'd love to work bigger, but it's not convenient to carry. Also, below you can see that I haven't figured out a way to get a bigger palette, so I can't mix any more more paint than what you see.
While the tide is nice and cool on my feet, it starts to carry away my water bucket and my easel starts to sink. Notice that my legs are getting further and further apart so I can stay level with my canvas.
Hi guys, I didn't mention in my previous entry, but when we were at El Matador, there were at least two other groups of landscape painters there. A couple of artists were nice enough to take some photos of me trying to work as the tide was getting closer and closer. Thanks Maya!

Tahoe majesty from the summit.

You can see the burn line from the Tahoe fire about five-ish years back. My cousin said after that is when they started putting fire hydrants along all the streets. You'll driving along a back road lined with trees and all of the sudden there's a red hydrant .

I lied in the previous post. That in the background is the real summit. My cousin says there's a flag up there so you know you're at the top. It's probably surrounded by dead hikers.

Reminds me of one of Friedrich's blasted trees.

Tahoe trail photos continued.

The summit.
So many awesome tree portrait possibilities. It would have been a great painting experience, minus the bush-wacking trailblazing my cousin and I did getting to the top.


A lonely rock.