In The Paint

Here’s another one.

I went out one morning before work this past summer for a quick photo walk. This is painted from one of the photos I took.

The final week of summer camp has passed; the clean-up is complete and I’ve had a week to relax before I have to think about my adult classes that begin in the fall.
The last week my 8-10 year olds focussed on landscapes. We did painting, printmaking, and photography, and went outside to do some sketching. The kids really focussed on their first painting which was an acrylic on masonite board after Tom Thomson. After the ground was covered with a burnt orange, the kids were restricted to using only a palette knife.
Here are a couple of results:

The next piece that the group did was an acrylic on canvas after artist Dorothy Knowles. I was attempting to get the kids to understand the different paint applications that artists use. While Tom Thomson applied the paint in thick short brush strokes, Dorothy Knowles layers washes.
Here are two of the final pieces:

I’ve been painting a lot of small canvases lately: as small as 2.5 inches squared. A few days ago I did two quick underpaintings on larger canvases and yesterday I completed one of them. As I was painting yesterday I hit a point where I really felt that I was in a groove or in the zone. It felt great! I haven’t felt that groove in a while.

The canvas size is about 24″x30″.

Hiking in northern Israel

This is a painting that started as a demo in an adult acrylic painting class that I’m teaching. I was demonstrating how to start a painting by finding the main shapes and tones and building up from there. Afterwards in my studio, I worked the painting to completion in oil. I often like to use acrylic as an underpainting as it is fast drying.

This painting is available for purchase here.

This is my most recent listing in my etsy shop.  I’ve been going through old photos of mine  looking for landscapes to paint.  This one is from northern Israel.

I’m waiting for the weather to turn nicer here so I can do some plein air painting.