Mixing colors cont...

Last time this was pinky red... Now it's very green. Or a bit Christmassy which I don't mind but there's still work to do.


tentatively titled "Camo"

The studio today

Red & orange... Named today after something the guy at Blow Up Lab said- "Out of Gamut".

To do list done

Finally dropped paintings at The Blow Up Lab for scanning... In case you don't know:

Blow Up Lab
1257 Folsom St, San Francisco
(415) 861-1200

They are great for scanning artwork.

Dogs & Winona's Eyeshadow

Just got some paintings back from a staging including this one in the background, Winona's Eyeshadow. Dogs not included.

Still working... An Yves Klein Quick Fix

...man, I need to rename this one. Shoot.

The other portrait...

Working on two portraits today.

How much is that doggy in the blog?

Here's a dog portrait commission that I'm working on. I also draw kids but dogs are the most fun. I love them dogs!!!

Staged

A home for sale from my friend & realtor Sherri Howe staged by Jamie Boatner... Like the art?

Mixing colors

This is my process: open my paint drawers + find something I haven't used recently. Then use it. Naples yellow, miceous oxide, primary magenta, interference green... It continues.

Paintings sold = painting supplies replenished

Suit 5 Salon sold 2 more of my pieces (2 back round about Nov), most recently "Cal Fight Song" + an untitled piece. So... Bought some new wood panels. This is the first effort today. I like to work a couple pictures simultaneously.

Don't know what a smalt is, but it's hue is beautiful blue gray. Of course I still mix it. For some reason color straight out of the tube is glaringly "color out of the tube".

Ah! "Yves Klein quick fix" 16"x20"

Still hanging...

I made these 2 years ago now.

Cont... Swamp Thing.

Remember this? The continued work on Swamp Thing.

Ugly

A pair that I'm working together as a diptych. Raw umber is my go to color for covering hideousness...

Enjoy the Bandit break between the blood sweat & tears this ugly pair is wringing from me.

After Bandit, I have better feeling about where I'm going.

I call this manner of painting the Gerard Richter technique.

Today is rather overcast; my pictures keep turning out darker & darker.

I think this pair now has a name: "Bubblegum". Even the texture is bubblegummy.

Left is 12"x16", right 12"x12".

Somedays I can't stop fussing. The rain's coming down now so enjoy the reflection of my lamp in the window.

I didn't stop fussing, again.

More experimentation.

This picture is so glossy it's kind of a challenge to get a decent shot of it. Anyway, it's encaustic wax layered with glossy clear acrylic. A big no-no apparently. But so what. I tried this same technique with another painting & the acrylic peeled off like a giant sticker. So far this Frankenstein of medium is adhering.

In general I'm not feeling the encaustic. It's a lot of work for a blurry uncontrollable shmear of color. Evidently I have not mastered the art of the encaustic.

This painting is titled "Test, test" & is 12"x16".

Today I'm working on fixing the bastard, unfinished & ugly paintings that I have laying about before buying more wood panels.