Getting Started with the Commercial Fishing Mural

I'm working up designs on big pieces of paper to see how things will scale up. Using acrylic dispersion paint. For rough sketch designs on paper, for the final mural on aluminum panels.

2010 San Juan County Fair Poster are Here

Cut paper collage for this year's San Juan County Fair.
Posters are hot off the press, I have them now at Funk & Junk

Playing with Paper at local Blues Night

Playing with paper, glue, scissors down at the local blues night....With the Duotones! Mike Adams and Bob Lyetze

Portrait in Oil, uplighting and a fauved portrait

In the spirit of my Sunday art class, I decided to try a portrait tonight. The first one was painted from a 30 minute pose, from the model The second one was a 2 hour effort using a photo reference.Both with a very limited palette: one blue french ultramarine, one red, cad red light, and one yellow, cad yellow medium, and white. Such a great triad of colors. 10" x 16" on panel

Paintings from Mexico

Fun in the sun, took my paints south and did these small oils on linen, easy to transport!

Coming in March, Portrait Painting Class

2 hour pose, Woman with hand Oil on linen


STARTING MARCH 14TH,
As a continuation to our Sunday morning drawing group, we will move to a new step in portraits. This next series will be painting the portrait. We will work simply with single color paintings, working in values, shapes and edges. See our drawing class at www.sundayart.blogspot.com/

If you are not on San Juan Island and would like to participate, let me know. I'd like to be able to include online learners.

Big Big BIG News!!!!!!!!

My proposal for a big mural project......... 12 feet by 40 feet........ was accepted. I will be working on panels this spring for this project and hope to post here as things progress.
The focus will be on the history of commercial fishing in my area of the San Juan Islands.