Art Show coming Oct. 16th

A few of my paintings will be featured in the lobby of Theatre West for the run of Sally Spectre the Musical. Please consider attending a show and giving these artists your support. Here are the details and a couple of photos of what will be for sale. The Calypso works have been posted previously but are now complete and ready to go.

Calypso II 12"x9"
Calypso 18"x24"

Old Templeton 6"x6"

Dragonstick 9"x12"

Theatre West is located at:

3333 Cahuenga Blvd. West

Los Angeles, CA 90068

(323) 851-7977

http://www.theatrewest.org/

Painting out

Took a short trip to Pasadena to paint a quick sketch at Cal Tech.

Bright

Oil 8"x6"

Owl

quick value study

Painting more loosely

One of the things I'm trying with this overly ambitious reference is simplification and using values to keep the shapes less defined. Here are two snippets that are getting closer to what I'd like to achieve overall. I need to keep painting over areas that are too clearly defined, which ironically means this could take a long time to make something look less finished.

Work in progress

small sections

Animation Demo Reel

2009

Something Different

Whenever I live in a new place I like to decorate it a little differently than most. This is the den or spare room, my latest painting. The lines were eyeballed and the stencil hand drawn. On to the next room in a few weeks.

Den

Oil and acrylic on drywall 9'x13'

Dark Forest Floor

Oil 6"x4"

This may not be what you think.  On a bed of wild strawberries, (which taste awful; like sand) an odd half- developed pine cone has landed.  I couldn't tell what it was until I found others in various stages, none of which quite looked so much like a pineapple.

Strange Fruit

Oil 6"x8" 

Revision of shed

Infested  

Oil 8"x5.5"

Cemetery on the Hill

Oil on Canvas 14" x11"

Photo day

This is photo reference taken on Easter at the Huntington Gardens just outside of Pasadena.   I know better than to ask to paint there...unless you want a lot of grief. Hopefully I can keep it simple and will post the results later for commentary.

Rare Flower

Digital Photography

Erdberre Tod

Oil 10"x10"

Erdberre

Oil 10"x10"

Rising from hiatus

Dragon Rising

Oil 10"x8"