by Bob Diercksmeier | Aug 25, 2017 | Paintings, Pastels, Pencils |
I started this series a while ago with a couple of sketches done from a few photos my daughter shot with my phone — blurry shots of hills and bushes near our house that she took at dusk. The photos have a really mysterious, moody quality, that I was hoping to...
by Bob Diercksmeier | Aug 18, 2017 | Paintings, Pastels, Pencils |
I’ve recently completed several pieces based on a few of the lakes east of Phoenix, as well as the Lower Salt River (also east of Phoenix). All are based on photos taken and sketches made of various locations I’ve visited while kayaking. The first...
by Bob Diercksmeier | Aug 11, 2017 | Paintings, Pastels, Pencils |
Over the last few months, I’ve completed a few pieces based on a couple of locations on the north coast of the Big Island of Hawaii. These are of views of the cliffs located on the north shore, in and around the Pololu and Waipio valleys. I’ve done a...
by Bob Diercksmeier | Jun 2, 2017 | Pencils |
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...
by Bob Diercksmeier | May 5, 2017 | Pencils |
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....
by Bob Diercksmeier | Apr 21, 2017 | Paintings, Pastels, Pencils, Sketches |
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,...
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