Paint and wine evening in Moreno Valley

On Thursday evening I worked with five ladies – Evelina, Tiffany, Vicki, Jan and Joanne, and guided them through painting a version of ‘And Never Leave…’  They learned how and why to do an underpainting, how to feather in clouds, do a gradient blend, how to get a yellow area to blend into a blue are without getting green, some things on Jeni’s tree cheat-sheet and a little about composition.  I’ll let the pics tell the rest of the story.

Underpaintings..

..more underpaintings

Clouds coming in

Working on feathering in

Joining clouds into a cloud field

Brighter area

Foregrounds…

…more foregrounds

Feathering two areas together

Jan’s finished painting

Evenlina’s finished painting

Vicki’s finished painting

All together now

Newer Work #5

#1138 “Peace and Turbulence”. Acrylic on gallery wrap canvas, 20×16″ $270.

When I hold a paint-n-wine evening, I end up with a duplicated painting.  This time I decided the class would paint “Dark Water, White Wave” an existing oil painting that I love.  So at the end of the evening I end up with a new version of this – in a slightly different size and shape, and this time in acrylic instead of oil.  It is a day view looking east across the Salton Sea.

Newer work #1

“Hot Morning”. Watercolor collage on foamcore. 14×11″ matted out to fit 20×16″ frame. $175.

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted new work.  I’ve been doing it but not posting.  So here goes.  Now that I’m working on larger pieces, they won’t be coming into existence one-a-day, but I will post them that way (or thereabouts) for awhile until I catch up.

This one was one I created while at a fair in Yuma a couple months back.  It’s one that was made from all leftover pieces from Creosote and Sand – I call that a ‘true child’.

Step by step.

#1145 Jason’s Sunset. Mixed media on panel. 16×14″ $390.

Last Saturday I was demonstrating my mixed media painting in the window at Orange Country Creatives.  Jason Tockey, the gallery owner was taking pictures as I went along.  Hopefully you can get into this link to see them.  On the right is the finished product, going to be glazing it this afternoon.  Thought I would name it for you, Jason.

Demonstration in Indio Senior Center

Demonstrating at Indio Senior Center

As part of the experience of selling some work at the Indio Senior Center this week, I was asked to spend a few hours demonstrating.  I had originally intended to demo in acrylic, but realized I didn’t have enough titanium white to do the demo and finish the piece I’m planning on getting done before I have a chance to go to the art store so…. oils it is! The other upside of oils, I decided, is that I didn’t have to worry about the paint drying when I was stopping painting to talk to people.  The downside of course is transporting them while wet afterwards, but I used the painting boxes for the pieces that I’d taken in the prior Friday.

#1120 – untitled oil painting 16×20″

I was glad I took two canvases as I paint quickly and did indeed finish both paintings. These made it home without smudging too much in the back of the truck and are now drying on the wall with brown paper ‘diapers’ behind them.  Both are as yet untitled.

#1121 – untitled oil painting 20×16″