Spent most of the weekend varnishing completed paintings and getting ready for a show. I did spend Sunday morning painting though, and got one small painting finished and another one started.
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| Port Aransas Dunes, 5x7 oil painting, finished. |
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| Dried Flower and Port A Dunes, unfinished 5x7 oil paintings. |
Thought I could get the little flower painting finished this morning too, but I worked on the beach picture first and I ran out of energy. So it will need another layer or two, and I would like to figure out what kind of flower it is.
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| Butterfly II oil painting, 5x7, unfinished. |
This painting has been in the works for a while, I need to quit playing with it and just finish it. My plan is to finish most of the oranges and darks on the butterfly and then scratch out its white spots. That's one of the benefits to working on Claybord, you can scratch through the paint layers to get back to the bright white of the gesso without hurting anything. That technique is really useful because white oil paint eventually either yellows or gets more transparent, so its good to keep the surface as bright as possible instead of relying on white paint.
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| Four Peaks, oil painting 4x12, unfinished. |
I know this painting needs some more work, just haven't figured out what exactly. For sure the blue on the sky needs to be toned down, it looks fake. And I think something on the left foreground needs to go darker, to make it look like the road is going into the distance.
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