Recent Work
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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. The...
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
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...