Another overcast morning without sunshine through the window to illuminate the dishes drying on the towel beside the sink. I started with a simple line drawing in ink using my Parker 51 fountain pen. I didn’t worry about the inconsistent perspective or the reality of the towel folds. The paper in the sketchbook is extremely …
Allowing colors to mix wet in wet on the paper produces wonderful transitions in color that cannot easily be achieved by mixing pigments on a palette. My palette consisted only of yellow, red and blue. The variations of purples and greens came from the pigments mixing on the paper with each other as well as …
The choice was to either tumble into bed or to force myself to stay awake long enough to do a quick drawing in the sketchbook that is next in line to be completed. I opted to stay awake. I wish I had scanned the original version of this sketch. I made two changes to it …
The rain held off just long enough for Tom and me to enjoy our first outdoor dinner of the year. I had hoped to paint the view of the open field as it bends down toward the woods, the trees hinting at the leaves that will be bursting out soon. Instead, I retreated to the …
For my Daily Paintworks Challenge submission I chose a complementary color scheme. The challenge is to pick from one of three color schemes: complementary, split complementary or triad and to create a painting with only items falling into the color scheme. It has nothing to do with the paint pigments you use, only the objects …
An extended analogous color scheme is, basically, half the color wheel. Traditionally it is one primary color plus the three adjacent colors on each side. A limited analogous color scheme, depending on whose definition you are using, is either three to four adjacent hues or five adjacent hues. This painting falls into the limited analogous …