Started Still Life 9.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 b
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 a
Started Still Life 6.
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 a
Today I need to create two posts because I started two new paintings. This is Still Life 8. This is my new and inexpensive canvas and it looks great and feels great when applying paint.
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 b
Started Still Life 16.
Monday, February 26, 2024
Worked on Landscape 3. I need to start having two painting sessions per day, one in the morning and one after dinner for two or three hours. Tomorrow I’ll begin painting fifteen new paintings. Thirteen of them are drawn and ready for the first basic painting steps.
Sunday, February 25, 2024
This morning I finished and signed Landscape 4. I like this quite a bit. I don’t name paintings. If I did UFO Clouds would be a good name.
It seems that when I glue a piece of canvas to a Blick MDF panel mounted on a cradle it causes the mounted panel to warp. So for larger paintings, over 12 x 9, I’m going back to the old reliable canvas mounted to stretcher strips. Today there is a large selection of stretcher strips. There are standard, medium-duty, and heavy-duty, and there are different brands. There are also aluminum stretcher strips.
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Worked on Landscape 2. Added the cattle to the middle ground. This is from a photo of a ranch in between the Big Horn Mountains and Greybull Wyoming. The next time I paint this one I’ll finish and sign it.
Friday, February 23, 2024
Today I drew the 13 still lifes on the 13 canvases and sprayed them with a fixative which is like a varnish. It will keep the drawing from bleeding into the oil paint in the future.
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Worked on all of Landscape 3. Over the next few days, I’ll be drawing the 12 still lifes and the 2 stream paintings onto the canvases.
Saturday, February 17, 2024 o
I needed to create a post for each new painting so I could attach its photo to its menu item.