MY PROCESS--DOCUMENTING "WORKS IN PROGRESS"- NEW PAINTINGS AND PRINTS. -- INCLUDES PALETTE AND COLOR NOTES.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Studio #1012 - SPRING SNOW AT TRUCHAS
22"x28" New Original Oil Painting
HOW DO I LOVE PAINT? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS!!!
Sunday, April 22, 2012
STUDIO #1012 - WORK IN PROGRESS (UNDERPAINTING) - SPRING SNOW AT TRUCHAS - 22"X28" Original Oil on Linen. This painting will take no more than five or six colors, not counting the white. Underpainting is done with oil colors and MG Fast Drying Underpainting White mixed with turpentine. Payne's Grey, Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque. Stay tuned!
3/5/12 - RIO GRANDE AT PILAR - 40"X30" WORK IN PROGRESS - Original Oil on Belgian Linen - Color notes: All colors mixed with MG underpainting white and turpentine and applied with a bristle brush. Foreground: Grasses - Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna. Willows: Burnt Sienna and Indian Red. River: Indanthrone Blue. Hills to the right: Yellow Ochre and Holbein Rose Grey. Sky: Indanthrone Blue and Payne's Grey. Stay tuned!
"AUTUMN FIELDS AT ARROYO SECO" - NEW 28"X22"ORIGINAL OIL ON BELGIAN LINEN - Framed in Gold with Linen Liner. Completed 3/1/12. Available. Call (575)758-7454 or e.mail. Enjoy!
AUTUMN FIELDS AT ARROYO SECO - 28"X22" ORIGINAL OIL ON BELGIAN LINEN, Framed in Gold with Linen Liner. Color Notes: Pinon Trees: Olive Green and Chrome Oxide Green Opaque. Yellow Fields: Italian Pink and Burnt Sienna. Shadows: Dioxazine Purple. Autumn Trees: Italian Pink, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow. Stay tuned!
2/6/12 - All colors mixed with Grumbacher MG Underpainting White. Color Notes: Greens: Chrome Oxide Green Opaque and Yellow Ochre. Shadows: Diox. Purple. Trees: Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Orange, CadmiumRed - Mars Red - Indian Red. All in various combinations.
2/6/12 - Most colors mixed with Grumbacher MG Underpainting White and turpentine. Sky: Thalo Rose Red, Indanthrone Blue, Payne's Grey. Trees: Combination of Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna, Chrome Oxide Green Opaque and Yellow Ochre. Earth: Mars Orange, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Holbein Rose Grey.
NOCHECITA DE ABIQUIU - 24"x30" Work in Progress - The Glazes: I'd be lying if I told you I knew how this painting will look when it's completed - just finished the glazes; will let them dry for a couple of days and then take that empty-handed leap into the oil paints once again! Stay tuned! DC
5 January 2012 - Basic colors mixed with Grumbacher MG Underpainting White. Sky: Cobalt Blue with a touch of Thalo Rose Red. Trees: Ochre, Cadmium Red, Burnt Sienna, some Prussian Blue and Cobalt Blue. Stay tuned!