Robert joyner videos

I think I may have mentioned him here before, nut there's a painter named Robert Joyner who has some free videos where he demonstrates how to paint loosely. You can find some at craftedbyRobert.com.

The lessons are short and quick and great to do when you don't have a lot time.

melo

Another of my cats, Melo.

Added some color in the background and a hint of a tail.

yucca pods

                        8x8
I grab a few of these dried pods every year, intending to paint and/or draw the. I love their shape. And their colors: black, brown, gray, wheat.

I think I prefer the drawing to the painting 

another Sargent copy

I'm not sure of the title of this one, one of his paintings of Tommies bathing. Really interesting to see how expressive his brushwork is. And in the original--a bit too much color bleeding in my copy--jow the pale blue violet shadows on the bodies enhance their whiteness amid all the green.

Sargent was not afraid of strong greens!

Sargent copy

                   10x12

A copy of one of my favorite Sargent paintings, A Tent in the Rockies.

This took me three sittings to complete and I regret 1) that, for some reason, probably because my sketchbook was right there, I painted this on hot press paper and 2) I now see that the left hand tent pole isn't as long as it should be ...

But I was delighted as I worked on this to notice that one of the things inside the tent, on the lower left, appears to be a French easel. 

I also found looking at Sargent's trees very interesting: there seems to be a blue underpainting; then greens are added on top, some passages of sienna and of violet; topped off with red where he wanted them darkest.

arya

                      8x8

Had time this morning to take my time and relax while painting one of my cats, Arya. She's my tiny cat and she remains the most kitten-like, even though she's about ten now.

monochrome

Monochrome studies for a class I'm in.

After trying with Payne's gray and indigo, I wanted to paint this cluster of leaves I picked up with transparent orange but quickly found I couldn't get a range of values with such a light color. So I added a little Prussian blue.

more littles

So busy with work and end-of-summer tasks and work on the house that I haven't had time to really "work" on something, so I'm just knocking out these little studies.

I have a project or two in mind and hope I have time for more sustained effort soon.

small studies

These were all painted from the same reference photo