Moon

I will always love graphite drawing, though it’s challenging now with my degrading eyesight.

I cut these pieces over a year ago with Hallmark’s laser cutter, intending to use them for wood-block prints, which was a miserable failure. I put them on a shelf in the garage and forgot about them. I saw them again while making some frames, busted them out, and started painting them. Then I glued them to black painted boards. I’ll get them into frames this coming week. Not sure when they’ll hit the Leopold Gallery + Art Consulting, but I kinda like the way they turned out.

I’d forgotten how painstaking silverpoint can be, especially with my wonky eyesight, but Gods, I love how silverpoint looks. And it’ll tarnish over time and look beautifully old.

“Spindrift After Aether”, 36in x36in, oil on panel.

Last sketch for the client. They decided they wanted to reduce the size of the panels somewhat. I also got the angle of their stairway (where the art will hang) wrong, and I corrected that angle in the sketch.

Rough stage. The domes on this one also feel too large, so I will extend the background color next session, after all the transitional colors are dry. It’s tough to be patient sometimes.

I’m backtracking on this one. I felt like the domes were too large, so I’m bringing the background in on them a bit to keep them proportional. It looks rough now, but I have faith it will get better. Also, that blue will get darker, and less saturated.

21 colors in, and still not halfway through it. Getting burnt sienna to blend with acid green is giving me fits. The between colors are distressingly counter-intuitive.

This one may get a bit muddy in the “between” stages. Yellow and Violet don’t like each other much.

I still have a lot of color transition work to do on this one. The background color is too bright, as well. I’ll be adding a touch of a complementary color to that coral.

Making good time on this one. Gonna begin work on transitions over the next few sessions. Half-way done-ish.

It’s been nine days since I did any oil painting, courtesy of sketches for a commission, which will always takes precedence over speculative muse-chasing. This one is in the very early stage.

Fingers crossed.

Listening to the KISS debut album, and “I’ve got got nuthin’ to lose”. I can’t believe it’s been over 50 years since this dropped on us like an atomic bomb.

This is in the very early stage. I was using it as a template to build frames, so it has seen paint since before Christmas. Eight colors in, forty-fifty to go…

Still in the early stages. Upper yellow needs to be smaller, the lower pink, larger. And probably some variation in the middle space. The allover color is feeling a bit dead.