“ADOBE WALLS/SANTA FE” – NEW 24″X30″ Original Oil (Completed)

“ADOBE WALLS/SANTA FE” – NEW 24″x30″ Original Oil Painting on Fine Belgian Linen,  framed in Gold with Linen Liner.  This painting was completed about an hour ago. Have worked on this canvas over the past two months — wanted that coziness one feels after a good ol’ New Mexico snowstorm.  For price and availablility, please […]

“ADOBE WALLS/SANTA FE” – Work in Progress

16 December 2009 —  Worked all day yesterday on the foreground, after putting dark glazes (burnt sienna, ultramarine blue and burnt umber) on the walls.  There is a heavy impasto in the foreground – added cadmium red and cadmium yellow to Permalba White for the snow.  This is the stage of a painting where I […]

“ADOBE WALLS-SANTA FE” – WORK IN PROGRESS

“ADOBE WALLS-SANTA FE” – A Work in Progress — This photo is of the painting after it has been glazed; now I will work on the opaque paints and hope to finish it sometime this next week….. DC, Taos, N.M.

TAOS SNOW DAY!!

3 December – View through my kitchen window – First significant snow of the season.  Am ready!  The “extra” snow day groceries are in the pantry, all my painting supplies are in — going to varnish and frame some small paintings today – and prepare my palette to start some new underpaintings tomorrow!  I love […]

GESSOING CANVAS — PREPARING TO PAINT

PREPARING TO SPEND THE WINTER PAINTING!  GESSOING CANVAS.  For large and medium paintings I usually use a double-primed linen canvas.  I mix up gesso with Payne’s Grey.  This creates a “grisaille”, or a grey ground, much favored by the Renaissance painters.  Letting each coat dry thoroughly between applications, I apply two or three coats, depending […]