Groovy Flower Pot #2

Groovy Flower Pot #2. 

Quick note again: All these paintings WILL be for sale as soon as I get this software / Paypal set up and mastered - and of course a battery of paintings up :-) 

I actually am doing these in a series: start with 18 x 24 inch Arches #140 lb cold pressed water color paper, gesso it, let it dry. Once dry slap on and loosely spread Pyrrole orange. let dry. Divide paper evenly into 4 parts vertically (narrow and tall). Loosely paint an outline usually in white gesso, layer on small collage pieces. Follow a working color combination, work all 4 paintings at a time ( in fact I had two sheets of arches with 4 paintings each going at at time here). THEN, negative paint until we got a ...Groovy Flower Pot :-)

I follow the Burridge motto of "try to make something I've never seem before". So even though they're all similar, they'll all be very individual...as you'll see if you're following here. My favorite part of doing this painting is throwing on the watered down gesso at the very end. (final layer.)

Also must say even though these are loose, it's not at the expense of relying on developed drawing skills: look at the imagined vanishing point both at the ellipse at the top and at the base. (speaking of drawing, you might pick up some skills ay another of my websites here: http://www.youcandraw.com/ )

till next time! 

Warmly, 

Jeff

Painting #3: Smoky Farm Fields, and 2 Cool Techniques

Smoky Farm Fields

Smoky Farm Fields. Watercolor and gouache with Derwent water 
soluble pencil, charcoal pencil. Painted on Arches 140 lb cold 
press paper, 12 and 1/8 x 16 and 1/8 inch. There is a 3/4 inch white border 
around the entire page. 

Fun parts of painting this: using another fantastic John Lovett 
technique of using an old fashioned dip fountain pen, loaded with 
burnt sienna ink, then before it drys using a fine water spray and
watching it just do whatever it wants in the most amazing ways. 
Works especially well for getting that old weathered look on walls,
buildings and boats. 

But of course the obvious center stage trick
here is the blue snow blasts or rain blasts or leaves, I still can't
figure out what they are -- I just love the effect. 


How to do it? 

Mix a tiny bit of ultramarine blue or phthalo blue  in either gouache 
or gesso, add enough water then let the drops fly on your paper
by carefully aiming on (or not) where you might like them. You 
can then tease them around with a rough old glue brush, or 
spray water directly at a part of them or around and let water
and time do the rest. Awesome technique. Thank you 
John Lovett!

What? Two Blogs in one day? I'm getting manic :-)

Painting # 2, Tide Is Out

Tide Is Out

watercolor and gouche

Tide is out. Watercolor and gouche with Derwent water soluble

pencil, charcoal pencil. Painted on Arches 140 lb cold press paper,
12 and 1/8 x 16 and 1/8 inch. There is a 3/4 inch white border 
around the entire page. 

Fun parts of painting this: using the John Lovett technique of
pouring on the dark sky and using a hake brush to really smooth
out those margins, leaving an area of white to lead your eye down

to and through the focal point. Small use of white gouche to spark 

up highlights and the fencing. Pencil work is loose! Gotta stay

loose :-) Sometimes easier said than done. 

Just want to reiterate folks, as I upload a whole bunch of paintings and learn the Paypal software, all paintings available for sale will be remarked as "for sale". Might take me a little time as I build the library. 

Groovy Flower Pot #1

Mainly acrylic, there is a light use of collage here ( see if you can find it :-) , Archival UV Polymer gloss varnish finish on Arches 140 cold pressed paper, 4 x 18 inches, unframed. I've been inspired and have been influenced in part by Bob Burridge. I had the honor of taking a class with Mr. Burridge June 2015 at Dillmans Bay Resort in northern Wisconsin. Though this is right out of the imagination you can see his influence in this series. Bright colors and composition are struggles for me (I'm colorblind - bright colors help) and so getting carried away by "bob-land" techniques makes each painting, well, an adventure. Learning that with acrylics you have so many options - like letting the painting dry and go back - teaches me to let go and let the process take over. A big step :-) 

Groovy Flower Pot #1

      Groovy Flower Pot #1


At the moment this painting is not for sale since this is a test and my first upload. It WILL be for sale soon. NOTE tiny tear of right upper corner, less than 1 cm (look in magnified viewed and you can see it).