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Fallen Leaves and Scribbled Dreams

From an IG challenge. India ink on bristol. Scribbled quotes on dreams are adding value amongst the hatching.

Thinking of getting a fountain pen for plein air and life sketching.

#penandink #tradiitiinalart

Misty Pines

oil on panel

An atmospheric landscape to match the day.

#traditionalart #oilpainting #landscape

Mushrooms

Oil on wood panel. Trying to loosen up brushwork a bit. Baby steps. Using larger brushes and working a bit more wet into wet.

#oilpainting #traditionalart

Pumpkin

oil on panel

A food paint challenge from IG.

It's definitely feeling like October now.

#traditionalart #oilpainting #October

Grapes

oil on panel

A recent food paint challenge from IG.

First time painting on an oil ground primed surface. I rather like it. It is a slower, smelly, and messier process though.

#oilpainting #traditionalart

Nocturne seascape, islands and land in the misty distance. Dark cloudy skies. Painted in mixed greys using ultramarine blue and burnt umber. Final glazes use a transparent slate pigment.

A Nocturne

oil on panel

A limited palette moody painting.

It finally feels like autumn here. Sweater weather has arrived. I will not miss the hot and sticky days but I will miss the extra light.

#traditionalart #oilpainting #seascape

Yeah, won't be doing that.

Some recent paintings. Oil on panel.

An incoming storm over water and an IG food paint challenge.

#oilpainting #traditionalart

An Apple a Day

oil on panel

Sitting at the cardiologist waiting. As great as he is, hopefully the adage is true and it's a while before I have to come back.

A still life food paint challenge from IG. Practice glazes using galkyd and galkyd gel.
#traditionalart #oilpainting

Oil painting of penguin on blue shadowed ice.

Detail of penguin.

#WorldPenguinDay

oil on panel

Using galkyd for the first time. It dries so fast it's forcing me to make more decisive brush strokes. It's taking some getting used to but hopefully it helps me stop overworking. Trying to embrace a more place and leave it approach.

Oil painting of seascape in blues. Shades of ultramarine, cerulean hue, and lavender tinted blue. Palest bit of orangey pink in the sky on the horizon above a faint strip of land. Calm waters, blue skies, low lying white clouds on the horizon.

Detail of clouds and brightest reflected light on the water done in thicker white paint.

Painting resting on palette with paints and brush.

Serenity

oil on wood panel

Blue skies and calm waters. The past few days have been beautiful. Gotta enjoy them when they're given. They're little bit of peace to recharge your soul in the midst of the dumpster fire.

#traditionalart #oilpainting #seascape

An oil painting study depicting a bright orangey red sunset on a beach. Painting on the easel with palette in front.

Oil painting on wood panel. A bright orange red sunset over water. View is from a beach right in front of the water as it breaks on the sands.

Detail of bright yellow sun peaking through the clouds and reflecting on the water. The thickest and most visible brush strokes are here.

Sunset

oil on panel

A color finding challenge for me. Are those darks umbery, purpley, need more greysh tone? Ended up using value and warms vs cools. This exercise was a learning experience.

unsplash ref: cindydvr

#traditionalart #oilpainting

Misty landscape of a seashore with dark clouds and whitecapped waters. Dark tonal painting with hints of color.

Landscape oil painting of impending storm on easel with palette and paints in front.

Detail of water; soft brushwork, suggested waves. Rock shore immersing from water in background.

Tempest in the Wind

oil on panel

A whole mood and state of mind.

Exploring atmospheric landscape and limited palette.

#traditionalart #oilpainting #landscape #solventfreepainting

Cloudscape

oil on canvas 10 x 10

Working on varying brushwork more and working on a toned canvas. I toned it a pinky purple.

I used just linseed oil to keep it simple. It started as alla prima but I did a follow up session to tweak values. Trying to get to a place to work plein air.

Oil painting of Martian blue sunset from a NASA rover photo.

Oil painting on easel with supplies used.

Sunset on Mars

Martian landscape from a NASA rover photo. Oil on panel making use of reclaimed earth pigments.

#oilpainting #landscape #traditionalart

Hostile Planet

oil on panel

Looking for something rather different for me, I found the reference on pixabay. It's created by ELG21 from a selection of other pix photos. It has a very sci-fi feel.

Exploring limited palette in atmospheric landscapes.

#oilpainting #traditionalart

Through the Mist

oil on panel

First painting after open heart surgery now that my sternum isn't a constant pain. It's been far too long.

Keeping it painterly. Working on some atmospheric pieces and exploring mixing with limited color palettes.

#traditionalart #oilpainting #seascape

Portrait of older man done with conté in sanguine tone.

Portrait of older man with drawing pencils.

Portrait practice with an IG challenge by @ jyportraitchallenge.

Conté on toned ingres paper.

#traditionalart #contedrawing

If only he had some sort of track record to look back on to ascertain his integrity...

Seascape done in black and white conté on grey toned paper. Dark storm clouds over water. Horizon suggests a hilly landscape. A sandy shore in the foreground.

Storm Clouds Over Water

Conté on Hahnemühle toned ingres paper.

#traditionalart #contedrawing #seascape

Portrait practice in conte. Reference by Judith Yaws via IG, @ jyportaitchallenge

Working on smaller portraits in between larger drawing project sessions to break up monotony.
#traditionalart #contedrawing

Portrait of mature woman done in trois crayons technique. A drawing done in three colors; usually sanguine, black, and white on toned paper.

Portrait of woman done in conte.

Portrait practice from IG @jyportraitchallenge, lots of fabulous references free to use. Which is great because I need lots of practice.

Conté on toned Ingres paper.

#traditionalart #troiscrayons #drawing #portraiture

The Edge of the World, Saudi Arabia.

Desert landscape in charcoal and chalk on toned paper. Exploring mark making and drawing techniques.

I have a few references saved and largely unused conte crayons and I'm thinking of doing some in a touch of Seurat style.

#traditionalart #charcoaldrawing

I also added a label on Google maps. It now shows Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) now for me when I look it up instead of just Gulf of America.

Mountain Chapel drawn in charcoal and chalk/pastel. Snowed covered peaks in the background, forested mountainside and a white Chapel on a hillside. A thin layer of smokey for lies between the forest and hill.

Mountain Chapel

A chapel in the Alps nestled on the hillside. Charcoal and hard pastel on Hahnemühle antique Ingres paper.

This one felt it took forever. Idk if it's the paper, pencils, or both. The Lyra pencils feel on the harder side.

#traditionalart #charcoaldrawing #landscape

Snowy owl in pen & ink

Two owl paintings in acrylic. Left is an owl in an dense autumn forest, with a semi abstracted background of suggested fall leaves in browns, oranges, and yellows. Right is an owl perched in a pine tree with blue sky and light clouds.

Halloween collage of an owl drawn in charcoal, autumn leaves and tree trunk painted in colored inks on highly textured paper in the foreground. A night sky showing a full blood moon and dark forest.

Happy Superb Owl Sunday for those that celebrate.

Pen & ink
Acrylic paint (Golden Open)
Mixed media collage; charcoal, ink, various pencils

#traditionalart #pen&ink #painting
#traditionalmediums

Charcoal, chalk, & pastel drawing of landscape with pond and trees on the easel. Art supplies in front.

Pencil nubs

Detail of landscape. Reeds among the water and shrubbery on water's edge.

Pond landscape in charcoal

Across the Pond

Adventures in mark making. Playing with a few new drawing sets I got for my birthday. Soft pencils go so fast. I got quite a few down to the end this month.

Charcoal, chalk, & pastel on laid paper.

#traditionalart #charcoaldrawing #landscape

Oil painting of Koi fish swimming in sun dappled pool. Shadows of palms fall on the water.

Oil painting of pond surrounded by lush greenery. Overcast sky with cumulus clouds. Cat tails in the forefront on water's edge

I started painting with oils this past year. Here's a few from a IG liquid paint challenges hosted by veryberrydraws.

Winter landscape with art materials used in drawing it.

Winter landscape scene, sunrise over snowy stream and field. Forest covered hills in the background.

Detail of snowy landcsape. Frozen stream rounding a bend. Barn and shed in background.

Sunrise Over Snow

Charcoal & pastel on prepared paper.

I painted an undertone of grey with acrylic ink on hot press paper and then added a layer of pastel ground to draw on. It holds lots of layers.

#traditionalart #charcoaldrawing
#landscape