Bedroom Study and Impatiens Study

I didn't get anywhere yesterday on this piece, but today things went along pretty good and I finished it my lunch time. Being dark and gloomy around here today, I had no choice but to spend my afternoon painting too, so I did another impatiens piece -- it's looking quite fine these days.

Above, Bedroom Study 18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard
Below, Impatiens Study 12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

The Bedroom Doorway

I don't know the rules of painting, but I have a feeling this piece breaks several dozen of them. I like it.

18x24" 45x60 cm acrylic on hardboard

Mews in the Mist

Yesterday's piece. I started with the idea of doing a painting in whites, but had to compromise a bit and a bit more color, but not too much.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

A Lane in Browns and Golds

This is the current version of this painting. I'm not sure if it will be the last or now. Like yesterday, I'm just enjoying working without fine constrains... Below is the morning version (I had taken a photo of it before I decided to revise it, so I'll include it in this post.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

A Lane in Blues

Did this piece this morning as an antidote to all my 'character building' of last week. I found this board last week and it had some sort of blue scene scraped off of it, so I just went over it today, lightly repainted it, giving it the 'scene' that the scrapped off board lacked. I  can't tell you how much more fun this was than the last several pieces...

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

Autumn Evening Farm

Did this over the weekend: the last of my character building. I have no patience for fine work, and just slop through it. No interest in trying harder...

10x15" 25x37cm ink and acrylic on paper

River and Rocks 1 & 2

I thought I'd take some time to go back and do some actual drawing (and coloring) just to build character. This is my first effort and it is somewhat of a mess: half a dozen different approaches on one piece of paper. That comes from just winging it...

20x15" 50x37cm acrylic and ink on paper

Below is my second effort, this time a little bit more restrained in it's use of techniques, and as a result, more of a graphic design than a picture.

10x7.5" 25x18cm acrylic and ink on paper

Sands in Half Light

I liked the sky -- it has gotten a little too dark as the acrylic paint has dried (oh, well) -- but I spend a lot of time exploring what I wanted to put below the sky. This is what I finally settled on. Not too imaginative, but it has a feel to it that the other prospects did not.

12x16" 30x40 cm acrylic on hardboard

A Street Corner in Lansworth

Recently I watched one of my favorite movies, My Fair Lady, and noticed a painting on the wall that had this general motif -- golden light bending around a dark shape, woods or something, and decided to see what I could do with that vague inspiration. This was last night & this morning's effort.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

November Study Three

It's title says it all.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

November Uplands

Usually by this time of year I'm either painting autumn past (i.e. when there were still leaves on the trees) or looking reluctantly ahead to winter. However these days I'm not interested in painting pretty pictures, just painting, so I'm sticking with the greys and browns and tans of the season as it is now, around here.

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Rowboats and Pirate Island

This is painted over the last painting I posted  (Dusk in Elkinton Sq) -- I don't know how many times I had to paint and repaint that board. Some boards are just like that -- surely it is not the artist's fault things don't turn out right!  Anyways, in the end, I decided to revisit a scene (A Study in Greys) and repaint it under different light conditions, and given my history with this particular board, call it a wrap.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

Dusk in Elkinton Square

I spent all day trying to paint this scene in a pretty way, but nothing worked. So I went and redid it in this gloomy er, moody, way instead and like it better, though it's nothing to brag about.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

November Study Two

I wondered what grey and gold would look like.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

Autumn Sands (Revised slightly)

Just played around with the sky and coloring of the sand a little bit

Autumn Sands, Fenlynn Bay

This was an accidental painting. I had painted a tree line and then decided I didn't like it and scrapped it off. When I came back to it I painted the sky, added the line of hills and the scrapped off  hills suggested sand dunes to me, so I went with that. I'm sticking with my minimalist inclinations these days...

18x24" 45x60 cm acrylic on hardboard

November Study One Revised

This is last night's revision of the previous painting. I made the design of the painting a lot simpler and more linear with everything in a horizontal band. 

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

November Study One

I don't as a general rule paint local scenes, but this one, as have been several others lately (the October Studies and the Bike Trail piece) are based on views from my daily bike ride. They are not the actual scenes, but recreations made with liberties taken.  As with all my paintings, the end result is of less interest to me than the actual painting of the piece, of putting it together, of seeing what works and what doesn't. This piece is pretty dull and boring, but then, it's a gloomy November afternoon which is dull and boring.

12x16" 30x40 cm acrylic on hardboard