The Fantastic Voyage of Mr. Turtle

Strange name but it's still just a still-life and pretty textural..so much that i won't get a decent pic until i can varnish it.

Seaside Palette Knife

Managed to get out the other day for a short and unfortunately sun-interrupted (was cool and cloudy at first) plein air session. Palette knife on rough 10 by 16" linen. (that's a lot to cover with only a knife and changing conditions). Fun, nonetheless!

Origami

Still Life with wooden clock

Another "tighter" looking still-life but not rendered.

Garlic Ying Yang

Couldn't think of an appropriate name so I called what it represents, light on dark vs. dark on light, sort of a flip flop notan thingy, if you will.

Anyway, a very similar approach to "Remnants" (see previous post). A tighter looking painitng but not rendered per se. To me rendering is simply tight application without regard to the scale of the product. So I only render if it is appropriate for the scale but in other areas where i can simulate the texture or detail while maintaining this tighter look without noodling I will do so. So the red-purple fabric has a combination of larger soft brushes and some size 0's for the right texture but the garlic on the other hand was all painted with a pretty fat filbert bristle. Scale is more important than rendering.

For me at least..

I will update the photo when I can take a more professional photo but I wanted to share this now.

Remnants

Not yet varnished, with some sinking in, so it's showing some unwanted suede effect right now. 9 by 12 " on wood panel.

Skull study

A painting study of a coyote skull, an additive approach.

Yerba Mate

This is a painting I did a while back on pretty rough canvas. I like to drink mate.

Bargue 56

Did this direct, i.e alla prima which I don't usually do but this one was relatively straightforward and not too large. Not all the shadows are actually that dark but the camera always seem to screw up the contrast issues..

Pear and eggs

A still life I did a while back that was on the shelf drying...and yes the pear was really ripe...although the photo enhances that effect quite a bit

Bargue 55

I'd been lagging on this one, but finally got round to wrapping it up...

Pointilism

I painted this simple still-life with a pointilistic approach but kept the color a little more muted. It definitely makes the camera's work so much harder with all those dots..

Vase and garlic

Yet another still-life, painted slightly looser with only bristles ...i.e. no monkeying...oo aahhh oooo aahhh :) The garlic was really fun to paint loosely!

Wine and bread

An experiment with different oil mediums..photo is a little off with the flat and shiny spots causing all sorts of issues with the photo (not that the painting doesn't have issues of its own..)

Bargue 52

Why the long face?

Probably the least fiddled sketch of myself. More deliberately painted than past ones . Also a different selection of colors but otherwise just another practice painting. Oh and I didn't smile cause it's cheesy ;)

Bargue Plate 51

I'm still using a roughish canvas but found a little better method with gradations. Although at this scale (no bigger than 9 by 12 inches) some things can't be "rendered" - unlike with pencil. But I like to use the plates to experiment with paint as well as just to draw.

Gray day eucs

Short Landcsape sketch.

Bargue 49

Took a slightly different approach to this one to play with some different materials/layering but it's still just a Bargue...

Blue and Orange

Another practice still life painting in the vain of the past teapot one (earlier post). Pardon the blurry photo, the painting is very glossy (but not varnished) and hard to photograph. The candle is sculpted then painted.