Progress 4

I like the feel of this underpainting enough, that I'd like to retain it in the finish. That won't likely happen as the finishes are much tighter.

Progress 2

I got back to this one after working on a few other things.

As of now, it'll have some lemons on the top of the paper.

Usually I set up a still life completely, but sometimes I let it evolve. The only things I knew that would be in this one are the pedestal (which is a banister I got a year ago from a salvage yard, and am just getting around to painting) and the paper. Which was going to be colored tissue paper, but all the whites in this are what'll be fun to paint; the colder white paper with the warmer whites of the pedestal, and the old, even warmer white door behind.

In Progress 1

I thought I'd document the process of a painting. I sometimes photograph states of a work, but decide to post some here (mainly so I can easily check it myself, with the dates).

This will likely be one of a series of still lifes with colored tissue paper (though this one's will be white).

I've been trying to mute my palette for a while, and "Parsnips" was one of the first ones where I did that, so I think this one will be similar.

Self

A fairly quick (2 hours?) oil sketch. I haven't painted people in awhile and I'm warming up on my own face. That sounded odd, but ...

Jamie W.

I think I'm finished with this one.

Well I thought so before then kept messing with it.

Oil On Linen, approx 19 x 15

Jamie W.

This is one I'm still working on, but I sort of like how it's going. A little smoother and tighter than I intended but that's how these things go. Sometimes the painting tells you how it wants to be painted.

Oil on Linen, 20 x 16

Parsnips I presume?

I believe these are parsnips and a turnip. So I'm told. I choose things to paint without regard for name, flavor or utility. I just like the way they look.

Trio, Oil on Linen 15 x 16

"You are so talented I would love to see you do something less boring and uninteresting. Try figures. And look up some design books."

Ouch. This was a recent comment on an Art Website about my work.

Provincetown

I'm packing up some paintings to send to the Egeli Gallery in Provincetown, (Cape Cod) Mass. The gallery is active mostly for the summer months, and should be open till late September. Stop by if you're in the area and ask for Arthur. And rave about my work loudly so people will hear.

Jamie

Thought I'd post something that isn't a still life. I'm doing some drawings and paintings of a friend of mine, Jamie. Working on a painting of her but had to stop all painting for a little while while I had my studio rewired. I nearly had a fire from a burning  and smoking wall outlet.

Back to normal now.

Pencil on paper, 14 x 11

September