New small watercolor study

"Updraft," 2013, watercolor, 10 x 7 inches. This is a study for a larger piece in progress...

Incognito

My very small contribution to the Santa Monica Museum of Art's annual benefit exhibition and art buying frenzy, "Incognito" (tonight, May 11, 2013)... Title: "Never is", 2012, watercolor, 8 x 6 in.

First brushstoke

For me, the last brushstoke is always the hardest. In particular, deciding which brushstoke should be the last, since watercolor punishes you with exponential severity for carrying on too long. By comparison, the first mark is easy... It could go almost anywhere.

New small watercolor

"Windex," 2013, watercolor, 8 x 6 in.

In the studio

What's on the drawing board today? Constant Comment...

Crazy busy

Sorry I haven't been posting much of anything here in far too long. I was doing a lot of watercolor commissions in 2012, and also working on some oil paintings for the first time in six years. Here is one example of my usual type of subject matter in oil paint instead of watercolor, and almost nearly sort of completed. (This is the disadvantage of oils over watercolors in the hands of the obsessive compulsive...)


Untitled, 36 x 24 in., oil on linen

Here is a detail view...



And yes, I'm still cooking up new watercolors too...

Thanks for looking!

Small something

A smallish watercolor recently off the drawing board...

This is the first watercolor portrait I've done in decades...
It was an experiment of sorts, as well as a gift.