Archives for June 2008
Painting at the Cliff Walk
30 June 2008 | art, painting | No Responses
I returned to my place at the cliff walk, this time with paint. I have a large canvas started in the studio that includes people in a similar rocky place, so I was after the influence of nature upon the color in that canvas. The day was windy and sunny, beautiful light by the water, so the watery influence is in this picture even though it is not visible.
Cliff Walk Sketches
25 June 2008 | art, drawing | No Responses
The following are a series of sketches of a place on Newport’s Cliff Walk. I found myself here one recent evening after a bike ride, and realized that some of the paintings I have been doing in my studio are reflections of this place quite specifically, though I had not consciously meant them to be so. In fact I had not looked at this particular place with any conscious recognition that I remember, though I had briefly been there. Yet there it was, my studio motif looking right back at me.
I did a few sketches and returned to do more. Some of the series are shown here.
Marcela in Party Dress
12 June 2008 | art, painting, portraits | No Responses
This portrait in oil was done this Monday past. I needed to set aside some stressful events of the previous 2 days, and this was the result of my two hours of work. Marcela wore her most colorful dress, which was heaps of fun to interpret.
Landscape sketch in oil
10 June 2008 | art, painting | No Responses
Last week, with the spring weather in full force, I did this sketch of Newport Harbor and the Seamen’s Institute. It has a strong sense of light and clear air. The harbor is not yet clogged with boats the first of June, one of the times of “in between” in Newport.