Trees & Snow color study

A color study for a larger painting.

Seems to show some influence from a book I got into recently: Impressionists in Winter: Effets de Neige by Charles S. Moffett. I am a very selective, and not massive fan of Impressionism, but the more restrained colors used in the winter scenes in this book clicked with me.

oil on Arches oil paper

Snow Oil Sketch

oil sketch from inside the car at Bunker Hill Forest Preserve in Chicago last Monday

oil on board

cherry branch

an older one - from a branch of a neighbor's tree that is no longer with us

oil on 8" x 10" board

Pajama George

Once upon a time my daughter asked me to make a painting for her of something she likes. I chose her longtime companion, Pajama (Curious) George. A late Christmas present.

oil on 4"x4" board

Tree in snow study

pencil on Strathmore Toned Gray paper

Sketched in Blue Star Memorial Woods in Glenview

broken camera scans

I have 2 large canvases underway, but the real reason it's been so long since my last post is that my camera has been in for repair. In the meantime I was able to use the scanner to grab these two.

figure sketch from EAC class

colored pencils on Strathmore tan paper

copy of Madame François Buloz (1879) by Sargent

oil on Arches oil paper

plein-air tree studies in marker

black and red markers in sketchbook