Suckers

Suckers

Approx 4"x3" oils on 1/4" MDF panel

Available

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Unframed $25.00 USD Framed $35.00 USD

The Wild and The Refined

I've had the happy opportunity to paint Plein-Air with Diana Moses Botkin as well as Aaron C Johnson. It's been a great week. I am thrilled to paint along side these talented artists. I'll post the results of my outdoor adventures soon, but until then, enjoy these 8x10s. Oil on Canvasboard, Unframed. Available at $40 each, $5 shipping.

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Forest Funghi

Palouse Tree - the Way to Uniontown, WA

In the Shade, Meridian Park, Seattle

Stone Lantern, Kubota Garden, Seattle

 And please visit Diana's and Aaron's websites! Diana's website: www.dianamosesbotkin.com Aaron's website: www.cordellart.com

Outside & Inside

With Spring in full swing and Summer close behind - the lure of painting outdoors and recuperating inside afterwards. Oil on Canvasboard, 8"x10", unframed. $40 plus $5 shipping. To purchase contact me: aldisdl@hotmail.com

Flowers, Fruit & Funghi

Happy Spring! Put a little color on your walls - Oil on CanvasBoard, Unframed. $40 each plus $5 shipping. To purchase contact me: aldisdl@hotmail.com

Direct Painting, Sessions 6, 7 & 8

Each painting took approximately 2.5 hours. I'll probably re-visit a couple in the future. What a great class. I recommend anyone who wants to improve their painting (or drawing) to take Barbara Fugate's classes, either at Gage Academy (www.gageacademy.org) in Seattle or in West Seattle. (www.fromlife.blogs.com)

Emotive Color - 24"x24" Oil on canvas

Bright Color - 24"x24" Oil on Canvas

Neutral Color - 24"x 30", Oil on Canvas

Direct Painting Class with Barbara Fugate, Session 1 & 2

Session 2 - Oil on Canvas 28"x20"
Approx 2.5 hours

The Challenge in this painting was to work with line/contour line. We initially stained the canvas using paint, dipping our rags in mineral spirits. The focus was to get the big shapes of light & dark, positive and negative down first. We each chose a color scheme - I picked a Secondary Triadic of Green/Orange/Violet. The next step was to use line, of varying weight, color (intensity, value) to emphasize and activate the forms. Barbara showed us artwork by Matisse, Max Beckmann, Gauguin, Oskar Kokoshka, Alice Neel and others.

Session 2, Detail 1

Session 2, Detail 2

Session 1 - Oil on Canvas, 24"x24"
Approx 2h

In our first Direct Painting class we were challenged to simplify the forms we saw into simple, big shapes of light and shadow. We each picked a complementary color scheme - mine was Red/Green. We also had to try to find a Figure-Ground relationship - by adding greens into the figure I incorporated colors from the background into the main figure. We looked at the San Francisco Bay Area Painters (Joan Brown, Terry St. John, Paul Wonner), Leland Bell & Elmer Bishoff.

Session 1, Detail