Gouache THUMBNAILS

 Nathan Fowkes book is so inspiring! Twenty minutes or an hour on a small study, with three considerations:

-grab that inspired momentary reason for choosing it-BIG SIMPLE RELATIONSHIPS

-SHAPES simplified

- squint, find the values- VALUE STATEMENT

A  exercise: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. Take a large sheet, grid it off with tape and create small values studies based on painters and paintings you admire. I’m starting with his book lol

Scale-Up? How much?

 

Often I hear people say I should work larger. This tiny 6x6  oil painting is intimate and inviting in my hallway.

Hanging in a small space it is intimate and inviting, so seeing it mocked up on a 40 inch scale is somewhat disconcerting.Does the subject still work?

Exhibited at Leslie Grove Gallery, it didn’t seem to receive the attention that the larger works did.

Finishing Touches

 This small grocery is a locus for locals- we wade through traffic to meet there. Getting there early in the morning shows off the warm buff coloured brick and the shadows on the awning. The small 6x6 inch seems to suit the subject- a tiny but bountiful and fresh selection, tucked into an inviting storefront display.

This little oil painting goes to Leslie Grove Gallery tomorrow for the Crossings show!

What a difference a sky makes

Praça Do Município, Ponta Delgada Azores, Before the Procession, Sao Miguel

The darker underside of these clouds somehow doesn’t look right. Perhaps the lower edge needs to be softened?