STUDIO WORK IN PROGRESS (Sketch) – Untitled 30″x24″ Original Oil on Linen. Loose sketch applied to a toned ground with Prussian Blue, Burnt Sienna and Distilled Turpentine. This is a little road in the Village of Tesuque late on a February afternoon. Often I block in six or eight paintings at a time for a couple of very good reasons – this has been part of my process for as long as I can remember. First of all these sketches are from field trips and stand out from the collected material as the most visually exciting. I usually compose with my camera (taking many shots of the same subject at different angles) and in the end choose the strongest composition. The way I paint the canvases are all in various stages of drying so there is a necessary rotation process. It is possible this routine wouldn’t work for a lot of artists, but somehow this process has kept me excited enough to keep painting for many years!
