Murry’s Canyon, Palm Springs
Arrived in Palm Springs today. Wow, great weather–85 degrees! The color and landscape here are such a nice change of pace from the Bay Area. Murry Canyon (Palm Springs), Oil on Linen, 10×8
More palms
Palm trees were made to paint–the palms a perfect brush stroke. I’m on my way to Palm Springs for a workshop with Mark Kerckhoff, stopping to paint where it strikes me. This morning I stopped at Refugio State Beach, between Buelton and Santa Barbara. I wanted to paint there all morning, but needed to time … Read more
Camille Przewodek Workshop, Day 6
Like all great workshops, I leave this week realizing how much I don’t know and energized to apply what I’ve learned to reach “the next level”. My goal is a bit lofty, and may not be attainable in one lifetime, but I really want to combine the compositional strength of Andrew Wyeth, with the poetic … Read more
Camille Przewodek Workshop, Day 5
Another full day today painting! I took off a bit early to soak in the hot tub. Perfect. Tomorrow we paint the figure, which will be a nice change of pace. Here’s Camille’s first demo start (Wai’oli Hui’ia Church, 1912). The lighting conditions were overcast. You can see how she starts with flat masses of … Read more
Camille Przewodek Workshop, Day 4
More mixed weather today, sun in the morning, overcast in the afternoon. I have two images by Camille, one for me. I only kept one as I spent the morning doing several starts, wiping off each start as I went. Here’s her first start in the morning: Here’s the near finish…she said she’d adjust a … Read more
Camille Przewodek Workshop, Day 3
This has been a full, tiring day, but hey, I’ll at least post some images and perhaps catch up and write smart stuff about them later 🙂 I painted this study of Anini Beach in the morning, before class started. Anini Beach (Kauai) – Oil on Linen – 9×12 Here’s one of Camille’s demos. The … Read more
Camille Przewodek Workshop, Day 2
The first day of Camille’s class, we followed her “Color Boot Camp”, which involves painting colored blocks in natural sunlight, after the technique she learned from Henry Henche. These exercises allow you to clearly see color relationships. Each block is painted a different color (in light and shade), as well as two different colored table … Read more
Camille Przewodek Workshop, Day 1 – Aloha!
He all, just arrived in Kauai today for my workshop this week with Camille Przwodek! I hope to blog from here daily, but don’t hold me to it, the first priority is painting! Right? In two weeks, I study with Mark Kerckhoff in Palm Springs, yet another great expressive colorist. Stay tuned. Kauai – 6:45PM … Read more
Paint Like Frosting
I too was once afraid of paint. I just finished Emile Gruppe’s “Gruppe on Color”, a wonderful book. He studied with John F. Carlson, one of the most influential teachers of plein air/landscape painting ever. Gruppe relates a quote by Carlson that you should “paint like a millionaire“, which is so true. Some subjects just … Read more
Sunset at Sea
The weather’s been crap here in San Francisco, so I’ve been painting a bit indoors. This is painting is from a digital image I took from a cruise ship we were on this past summer (from Athens to Venice). There were some great sunsets at sea. I recall a cruise we took in 2000 (when … Read more