Fluffy Chickens

Yup, it's a farm painting. Apologies for not very many beginning shots. I did all in the first pic in one day. I was on a roll in (for me) the new wet on wet style. 

Final product:

Fluffy Chickens

36"x 24"

Oil on canvas

Unframed Price: $125

Ascent

This is the painting I was working on at the same time as Bivouac. I'll be honest, it was a slog.
It started out as a snowy pic, but I thought that might end up being too visually boring. 

So I put it through a few iterations.

With green trees.

With green trees and a lake.

With white, snowy trees and pink clouds. Ah, those pink clouds. Ugh. Terrible. 

After an evening of staring at this painting, wanting to break the canvas board over my knee, I found the painting I wanted to do the whole time. 

The final product:

Ascent

24"x 18"

Oil on canvas board

SOLD

Bivouac

As I was working on another painting, upcoming to the blog shortly, I began a painting that takes place at night. This stands as a departure from my usual fare, especially the one I was working on in tandem with this one. 

It went along quickly from the beginning point. I had it completed in a couple of days instead of my usual couple of weeks. 

Finished product:

Bivouac

24"x18" 

Oil on Canvas Board

Black aluminum framed price $85

Approaching

The second painting in my landscapes series was originally going to be an abstracted cityscape. That concept stopped inspiring me about thirty seconds into starting it, so I added some mountains that were MUCH more interesting.

 

See, mountains.

I got tired of the stylized clouds so I wiped them out to start over. I ended up liking this subdued look more than anything. This inspired parts the final product.

Approaching

24"x18"

Oil on canvas board

Back aluminum frame price $85

Tennessee by Jodi

Honorable mention goes to my partner in crime Jodi, who made this excellent watercolor landscape. I love the difference between her style and my own. She can apply subdued color and paint strokes to make an excellent illustrated effect on a piece. This is Tennessee by my wife Jodi:

Tennessee

16"x"12 

Watercolor on Paper

Distressed black wood frame price $50

Aspen

The painting that follows is the first of many landscapes that I hope to undertake in the near future. It is titled Aspen.

Using a pallet knife I inlaid the mountain ridge. The knife gives a craggier look to the mountainscape, as opposed to a brush which would have made the rocks too soft. 

As usual, a change needed to be made in the lefthand corner. It was too dark with the full ridge extending to the foreground, so I eliminated it. 

In go the aspens...

 And the finished product: 

Aspen

Oil on Canvas Board

16"x 12"

Black aluminum framed price: $75 

Portfolio 4, Commission

My boss commissioned me to create three watercolor paintings for our company's conference room. The big blank white wall was getting depressing. 

She is from London, England and now lives in Columbus, Ohio. She wanted to see a combination of the two cities in her paintings. The following are the three pieces combining elements of each city throughout different parts of the day. 

Morning

Rush Hour

Evening