February 16, 2016 Drop a nickel in and the magic begins! The beautiful, round metal disk rises from the rack, aligns itself properly (sometimes with a little help) and begins to turn. The music begins and I enter into a world of childhood delights. Not only does this Regina Double Comb Music box make delightful sounds, …
Trumpet Parts No. 77 was painted on the inside cover of my large, leather-bound sketchbook. Each time I opened the sketchbook, I was forced to see this sketch that gave me a queasy feeling in my stomach. I either had to glue something over it or change it. I opted to try a few changes …
Almost all of the paintings in the Trumpet Parts Series have been closed-form, closed-value paintings. The colors and values are limited by the boundaries of their shapes, creating paintings more decorative than realistic. I found it easier to experiment with the color schemes by first creating an ink drawing of closed shapes, then painting the …
Trumpet Parts No. 94. Cross Complementary Color Scheme. The cross complements are Violet, Yellow, Blue / Green and Red / Orange. Drawn first with fountain pen filled with brown ink (Chocolate) followed by watercolor. I returned to drawing in one of my unfinished, larger sketchbooks with thin paper. I’ve been spoiled working in the sketchbooks …
Playing with shadow colors again. My concentration was on the temperature of the colors, the value of the colors and the contrast of shapes. Overhead lighting cast a strong shadow beneath the trumpet horn. I opted to eliminate the minimal shadows cast by the dice and other trumpet parts, feeling they would create busy patterns …
The ink bleed is beginning to be a nuisance. I would have like this better if I hadn’t added the red/orange background. The fine lines of the rosemary plant leaves bled into the watercolor, filling in the small negative shapes between the leaves. The contrast was lost because the blue/green of the leaves is too …