Posts Tagged ‘painting step-by-step’
Works in Progress
Wednesday, July 20th, 2016
If you follow what I am doing in my studio you may think I have not been doing much. The truth is I’m doing quite a lot, but have not been finishing what I start. Sometimes the isolation of studio work leads to spinning my wheels and a lack of impetus to keep on with the […]
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Noah’s guitar
Friday, January 13th, 2012
Remember the pictures of my grandniece Sophie playing her violin and then a couple years later, her flute? Well, her little brother Noah, now nearly 10, is also a musician. This Christmas I snapped some photos of him playing his guitar and when I was trying to boot myself back to work in the studio […]
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Portrait of Dennis and Liam con’t
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
Here’s what happened today. This looks much more like Dennis, having shortened his jaw. The poka dots are from the photo but I kind of like them… hmmm… Values are looking good. Liam’s face was also too long. Checking against my reference I could see how the nose and mouth needed to be moved […]
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Sarah
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
Sarah was expecting her first baby to arrive in a week when I took this photo of her in her new hat at my daughter’s house. I thought it was interesting that after I got home I felt more compelled than usual to print out the photo and get going. I enjoyed communing with Sarah […]
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Brothers 3
Friday, October 29th, 2010
My wonderous nine month old grandson arrived here on the 26th to stay while his parents are in Japan. Skype is a wonderous thing even when the connection falters. We will return him to Portland on the 3rd, have a nice reunion and come home on the sixth. THEN I will paint again. Until then […]
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Brothers
Friday, October 15th, 2010
The Roses were a good warm-up; this week I’m on to the painting for my niece. I’m doing this from a photo which I will not post in its original form because it was taken about 8 yrs ago and one of my grand-nephews is not so happy about anyone seeing this image of him […]
