Fruit and Veggie Basket
9" x 11" Oil on Board
When it comes to painting, my powers of observation are greater than my ability to convey my impressions through a paint brush. Hopefully, one day they'll match up. And if that's not a metaphor for my life, I don't know what is.
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8" x 10" oil on board
Camlin was begging me to paint with her, and I didn't really feel like it because we had just gotten back from a pretty long outing. But, I gave in and just decided to paint with very low expectations and without correcting any of my "mistakes." So I did this with no touch-ups, no painting over or wiping off and redoing, etc., while Camlin chattered away beside me. I like how it turned out. It may not be beautiful, but at least it's not overworked.
There's a style of painting, popularized by a painter named Duane Keiser, called premier coup (I attended one of his workshops a few years ago - he's amazing). Premier coup means something like, "first strike," and in painting, it just means finishing a painting in one sitting. Turns out I've been painting premier coup all along and didn't even know it! Almost all of my paintings are finished in one sitting, usually under four hours. Hopefully that's not obvious in a bad way...
12" x 12" oil on board
The native plant garden in my backyard - still mostly green. The kids were watching Raya and the Last Dragon, so I had two hours. I got it done in about ninety minutes...It was cloudy, so the light stayed pretty consistent, but it was still bright - good painting conditions. Another summer vacation begins.
