The Yeti Weeps for the Impure

New painting!

Nevermind my finger at the bottom.

Oil on Canvas
SomethingxSomething (pretty small)

The face, I'm pretty sure, is going to be glazed to look more like a human face. You'll see.

Progress

Here's where I'm at with these two

This first one is almost done.


and this second one has a little more ways to go. But it's gettin there.

Fall Paintings

An Attempt to Communicate with Spirits
Oil on Canvas
30x40
2009



A Gift
Oil on Canvas
30x30
2009



The Wooden Boy's Garden
Oil on Rives BFK
30x60
2009

Two New

With these two paintings I'm trying to pay more attention to color. This first one is more obvious. Working with the complimentary colors of purple and yellow, I'm trying harder to do tones and values with color, rather than just letting the underpainting show through.

Right now the colors are a little extreme. By the time its done, things will be a little more subdued, but still colorful.

Here too, I'm working with glazes but paying more attention to color. This one I think will be a play of red orange and green blue. I think.

I didn't win the Fall awards show I entered. I think the faculty here dismisses my art as too illustrative. I started these paintings after the show. Very illustrative, but a lot of fun to do.

The Wooden Boy's Garden tetraptych

30 x 60 in.

Oil on four sheets of Rives BFK paper (30 x 15 in. ea.)

Grisaille Underpainting using:

Liquin/ Gamsol

Underpainting White

Ivory Black

Ultramarine Blue

and Burnt Umber

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