ArtStuff,etc.

Paris near Notre Dame and The London Eye.

Three more from the noir series.

My latest painting, quarter sheet watercolor.

Photos before my opening show last evening. They overflowed into the back lobby. Great venue.

Two recent paintings. I continue to paint for an upcoming show and the one with the cars was painted after an Alvaro demo which I bought for myself. I came pretty close.

Paintings done this week. London and rural France.

My latest 15x 22. Another Paris scene.

A painting of the downtown of New Bern, NC. A small city on the way to the coast of North Carolina. Very quaint.

St. Marks Square, Venice. From a photograph.

Wet Sunday in Paris. half sheet Arches rough.

The question was asked: What I use for value sketches? I actually use several mediums. I use felt tip pens, fine tipped pens, 4B pencil and charcoal. Sometimes mixed together and sometime alone. If I start a field sketch with say a felt tip or a fine tip, I may enhance that back in the studio with shadow and highlights, or I may use that sketch as a reference to start a fresh one. I recently bought some water brushes to experiment with. Haven't used them as yet though.

The Historic State Capitol Building in Raleigh, NC, my hometown. Looking down the main street.

One from my workshop in Mass. with Alvaro. The other is from a photo I think of the Spanish Steps in Rome.

My paintings from the last two weekends. One is a re-do from my recent workshop.

Alvaro's workshop in Vancouver, BC. Here are some demo paintings. I don't have all the references for these.

Here are several of Alvaro's paintings with the associated reference views. As you can see they are greatly enhanced and made to be very dramatic.