More Recent Pastels

More Recent Pastels

In the past few weeks I’ve completed two more pastel drawings that are based on two pencil drawings I did of the same subjects. My goal for both pieces is to give them a tonalist feel, and have the color, lighting, atmosphere and mood draw the viewer into the...
More Recent Pencil Drawings

More Recent Pencil Drawings

I recently completed a few more pencil drawings, and these differ a bit from the first batch I posted here on the site. The two shown in this post are value studies for a couple of pieces that I’m working on that feature more of a tonalist feel. The first is an...
Recent Pastels

Recent Pastels

I’ve completed a few pastels in recent weeks that are based on pencil drawings I created. I do a pastel color study before creating a final oil painting — the goal of the pastel drawing is to work out the color palette I’ll use for the piece. I do my...
Recent Pencil Drawings

Recent Pencil Drawings

Recently I’ve been working on a few pencil drawings of subjects from my sketchbook. I create these drawings before I do the pastel color study for the final oil painting. The goal of the pencil drawing is to define the values, the darks and lights of the piece....
Tree Series

Tree Series

As I continued to evolve my working process, I moved on from my Kohala series to another subject — trees. This was an interesting subject for me to take on, because I am trying to keep the representational details in my pieces to a minimum, to focus on color,...
Kohala Series

Kohala Series

As I began my latest body of landscape work, I needed to work through what I was going to draw and paint, and the accompanying considerations of my working method. This included subject matter, compositional strategy, how much detail I would include in each...

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