Worked on all of Still Life 6. Only details remain.
Saturday, August 24, 2024
Friday, August 23, 2024
Worked on Still Life 17. I go through my thirteen still-life paintings in order. Still Life 17 is the last one. I’ve now painted each one six times. Tomorrow I’ll start going through them for the seventh time and I think except for small details I’ll finish six or seven of them. So about a month of painting and I think they will all be finished.
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Worked on Still Life 16.
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Worked on Still Life 15.
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Worked on Still Life 14.
Monday, August 19, 2024 b
Finished and signed Seascape 2. The signature might be a little dark. If I still think that after three days I’ll lighten it up a little.
Monday, August 19, 2024 a
Worked on Still Life 18.
Sunday, August 18, 2024
Worked on Seascape 1. I’ll give it one or two more tries but I don’t think I’ll get the sky right.
I’m abandoning Landscape 3. It’s flat, with no light, and no shadows, and the sky is horrible. I’ll save the stretcher bars for another canvas.
Saturday, August 17, 2024
I’m calling Seascape 2 finished except for a few sharp wave lines in the foreground and a signature. I didn’t sign it today cause a wave line might go over the signature. I’m talking 10 minutes of painting. I’m happy with it.
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Worked on Still Life 13. In September I’ll be taking a three-week trip to the Southwest to fish, maybe the Conejos River and tributaries in southeast Colorado, and to take landscape photos to use as reference for some loose, impressionistic paintings. The landscape I painted a few months ago was a lot of fun and it was fast. Plus people like that type of thing much more than realistic still life paintings.
