one bunch of flowers. . .

                                                              two paintings

Oh no!

                                                        not another self-portrait!  well, yes
                                                         who else will pose  for free?

Monday morning alla prima

                                                        three colors + white 6"x 8"

self - - again!

                                                                 18" x 24" oil on linen

fifteen minute study

                                            March snowstorm - fire-escape outside my studio

pears, toulouse lautrec

                                         pears in front of Rosa La Rouge 6" x 8" oil on linen
                                          covered board.
                                                   
                                       

pink day

                                                                    skm + gsm*



                                         *after - way after - Baudry. oil on metrocard

persimmons and npr

                                                              Saturday morning painting
                                                                   6" x 6" oil on board

poster study

                                                               oil on canvas board

for Judy P. . .

                                             who has a birthday sometime around now -

                                                    happy birthday, mon amie!

                                                         after Picasso - oil on metrocard

thank you!

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go shop at their store!

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after Guido

based on, though not an exact copy of, one of Guido Reni's St. Sebastians - oil on metrocard

color mixing challenge

 

limited palette - cad yellow, cad red, black and white

too much fun

                                           duck decoy - oil on metrocard

single fare

two little paintings on metro-cards. Dare I say it - working on these little canvases is the Downton of painting:  a guilty pleasure!

Leftover clementines

There were a few clementines leftover from Christmas, so before eating them, I painted them! This is a fairly quick study  - 6" x  8" on a linen covered panel.

Gearing up for an interior. . .

This is a study for a larger painting that I am pretty sure I am about to start.  It's going to be an interior, my first, and the dress dummy is going to play a major role. On verra, as they say.

Jordan's pitcher

I have been home a lot this week due to the storm on the east coast, so I have experimented a bit.  I have long suspected that there is a more streamlined strategy for making small paintings than I have used previously, so this week, with time on my hands, I decided to try something new.  This was a three stepper.  First pass in large blocks of local color thinned only with turpenoid so that it would dry quickly.  Second, thicker paint, adjustment of colors and values, but still pretty general.  And today - the final addition of detail.  I know. This is not a new way of going about making paintings - but it has never been my way which has been less thought out, less directed, messier and surely less efficient.  Not that making paintings needs to be efficient - in fact, I don't actually think it should be efficient.  I just wanted to see whether I could stay on track.   There is another painting coming one of these days - a drapery study, but I can already feel my resolve to stay structured slipping away.  Anyway - this is a 6 x 8 inch painting of the pitcher that Jordan so sweetly gave me as a birthday present back in September.

Inspired by NMT

Michelle Tully creates gorgeous color studies which can be seen on the Studio Escalier website.  She posted one yesterday which inspired me to paint this one in my class at the Janus Collaborative School in East Harlem.  Michelle uses a full-color palette - with remarkable results.  Since we are using a limited palette, I painted this using just burnt sienna, ultramarine blue and flake white.

will you still need me, will you still feed me. . .

                                                         
                                                             self-portrait, oil on linen