Spring Lake

This painting is titled Spring Lake. This is a 12 inches tall by 9 inches wide oil painting. The grass is still you. The mountain in the background hasn't melted its snow. The flowering trees are blooming. The water is still icy cold. This is a place where I would love to go fishing and catch some nice trout. This is on eBay

The Bright Color version of the Old Masters Method.

This is a 11"x14" Oil Painting on Gessoed on hardboard. This time I used jewel toned oil paint colors instead of the brown tones. This is mainly a transparent paint painting. The only opaque color I used was white.

This is a very time consuming method.

Challenges....

I've been working on this painting with the Old Masters Method. It's not done but this painting was more about learning than turning out well. The stamens need to be added and a few dark veins in the flowers then I'm going to call this done. I will be doing another painting with the same vase and flowers. The background color will be changed.

This painting I did a value sketch on paper. Usually I sketched my paintings in paint with contour lines in very thinned down blue, alizarin crimson or purple oil paint. So getting out the sketch book and doing a value drawing first is different for me.

Now one of my comment buddies commented he doesn't remember ever learning this method in college. It doesn't surprise me at all. The old master methods of teaching art have been cast aside from majority of colleges.  I wished colleges kept these old traditional method classes instead of discarding them. I believe there is room for both styles at colleges.

I recently found a website that is promoting old traditional learning art at approved Atelier schools. Wow, if I was younger I would be heading off to one of these schools.

Still Lifes - Fruits and Vegetables in the Old Masters Method

These are 9"x12" oil paintings.  It was my first time trying out the old masters geezer method. Starts out with painting several layers of transparent paint. The last stage is putting on the opaque paints. This method brings out the oil paints luminosity.

Texas Pond..

Texas Pond 9"x12" oil painting on stretched canvas

This is Buffalo Wallow Pond in Abilene State Park. It is up for Auction at Ebay starting at 1 cent. Click here to bid.

I remember the first time I visited this pond. It was very hot and humid day. The Park Ranger told me to park at the visitors parking so I could see the scenic route. I was sweating more than broken water main.

Gals are back in Town

The gals are working hard on their masterpieces.

She is adding the last finishing touch to her masterpiece.

Lovely!

She is camera shy!

She is a true free spirit painter.

Beautifully done.
She has her painting in a "travel box" that I make for my students so their cars won't be messed up with oil paint. 

 

Iris Flower Painting

 

The students want to paint an iris for their class in August. I painted this on an 18"x24" canvas that is ready to hang. The students have set for their painting lesson goal is to learn how to make "frilly froo froo" flower petals. The day was spent trying to figure out how to communicate "frilly froo-froo" onto the canvas for them. Guys to understand froo-froo think of lace or freshly clipped poodle.