Roses After Abbott Handerson Thayer -Study

After Abbott Handerson Thayer - Roses

Choose this because of the palette and painterly quality.   A copy can be found on the Google Art Project site. 
I did a study of this still life for practice and to get me thinking about still lifes in general. I had signed up for a 1 week course of still life in oils.  A big investment for me in time and money so I wanted to get the most out of it. The course was followed by a two day drawing workshop all part of Draw in in Belfast.  In the next few post I will show some work and talk about what the experience was like. 

Cloud Study -Lough Melvin

Cloud Study -Lough Melvin

(updated image)
Did a cloud study in oils (12"x 8").  Photo of the study is not so great.  Will try a take a better one and replace.  

Lough Melvin

Landscape Rocks

Landscape Rocks

First landscape since April! What have I been doing? This went through a number of iterations and still not overjoyed but as ever learned some stuff along the way. 

Torch

Torch

 Started off as a rough sketch but I wanted to try some different approaches so worked this one up to a better finish.  Started in greyscale then added some rough colour.

Clean Up

Clean Up

 A change from all the environment stuff I have being doing of late.  Started out as just a character but then decided to add in a machine of sorts.  Took me quite a while and I suppose it could be cleaner but hopefully will take lessons and apply in the next piece. 

Gate 2

Gate 2

  Just fooling around trying some stuff.

Portrait study 22

Portrait study 22

Portrait study 22

Did some portrait studies.  Started these off with a different approach starting off trying to identify the planes. 

Building B

Building B

Started out as a doodle.  

Belleek woods 2

 

Belleek woods 2

I had time to do some more involved work.  Did a similar forest scene way back in 2011.  This one is smaller 12" x 10".  Cant believe it has been so long since I tried the same subject in oils.  From what I remember this one was a bit faster to work on.  It still needs a bit of attention but that will be done at a more leisurely pace.

Launch

Launch

Something completely different.  Started out as a doodle and I revisited to try some effects and filters.