Straw Warrior

Straw Warrior 

Supposed to be landscapes this week. I did start one but I took a break to doodle and this is what I came up with. It was much easier to work on so I kept going with it. 

Trying Trees

Trying Trees 

Some trees from imagination.  
It looked better about half way through.  
Think I fussed too much over it. 
Moving along....

Landscape studies 13

Landscape studies 13

Went back to landscapes.  These were all from photos I took.  The plan was to try a few different approaches to get the structures down with the least amount of fussy brush strokes and pay attention to edges.  The aim is to get better at planning things out and moving on to more imaginative stuff.  I am also hoping to do some gouache and oil studies and imagination work.  

Bigger Boat

Bigger Boat

Started out as something completely different but this is where it ended up.  If I had designed earlier I would have grouped the waves but it is what it is. 
See there are some new blogger themes maybe time for a site facelift.  

Unsung hero -Still Life

Unsung hero  -Still Life 

Its celeriac.  Bought it just to do a still life study of it.  (May make some chips from it also.)  Had not done a still life in a while and I thought yip I want to do one of this. A couple of hours of effort and a nice change of pace.   

On holidays

On holidays

Poke

Rebel

This week just did some studies and tried a few different approaches to rendering. Just trying to get a more finished look more efficiently.

After Charles Leickert -Dutch village scene with figures on a frozen canal

 After Charles Leickert -Dutch village scene with figures on a frozen canal

Finally got around to finishing this copy. Working on this scale (25 cm  x 20) is hard but by the end I had a system for working the details but I could have been neater from the start.  This was an interesting palette and had to work hard to get varying hues.  Looking at the original I could have pushed the darks more.