Jessica Seated

Jessica

12x9  oil on canvas

study - life class

I usually jump at the chance to paint from 

a model...especially a clothed one.

Jessica had a nice roundness to her body which I liked.

She fell asleep so was perfectly still. 

Artist Note.

I started off finding the shape and proportions in a 

transparent red. I had pre-mixed a batch of clothing 

and background colors while waiting for the right pose 

to be found. I painted fast and 

scooped up the paint for texture. The red showed through

in places and I liked the look so 

came back and outlined with red here and there.

Not my usual way to paint, but enjoyable and that's what 

it should be all about. Trying new ways and  

treasuring the moment.  Right?

An Apple A Day Keeps the Doctor Away

An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away!

oil on canvas

Completing my fun time of presenting different forms of still life.  

This is a contemporary viewpoint of an ordinary, fruit and objects, still life...only this is a detail from a larger painting. (see below)

In this case, the square format, big brushstrokes and simple shapes suggesting the apples, fruit and bowl are what make it contemporary. No tight realism - this is all about the eye filling in the detail enough for the viewer to know what they are looking it.

The full painting, below, has not been finished yet. It was a demo done for The Artists Guild on a 24x24in canvas. It took less than two hours, which amazes me as I can spend much longer than that on my small, daily paintings.

I did it back in the fall when I was getting fresh apples by the bushel, right from the Nichols Apple Farm, La Luz, N.M. 

My mother raised me with the old expression of an apple a day...and for good reasons I am a believer of it!