Out of the Woods

Okay, hard to believe I dropped off the blog for over a month.   As you may have guessed, I was working like crazy for the show opening at the end of this month!  Took my usual break to go to Nashville for the holidays and barely made it after some delay.  (Remember that storm that shut down the East coast, yep, that was the day of my original flight.)   So, my visit was too short and then I was back working.   Things are coming together, loose ends really, and I really think the show will be great.   Stay tuned and I should have lots of updates.   Little linen painting here is a variation on the big boy.

Minor Adjustments

I've shown these two before, and the changes may not be obvious past this point.   They are nearly finished, barring perhaps some more minor adjustments. 

Two Starts

Here's a couple more of the linen panels in the works.   There's no figure in the bottom panel yet.

Puffy Coat

Halloween may be over, but winter is just starting.  There's nothing like losing that hour of daylight to put me in the mood for these paintings.  Working on these during the summer felt like pure fantasy, but now the chill is in the air.  It was 34 degrees on the walk to class this morning, and I'm guessing my scarf will be on for the walk home from the studio this evening.

Snow Man

This one developed enough atmosphere to call it a start.   I'm imagining a tree or two in here as well.

Wanderer

A wanderer appears, and the scene is considerably darker. More work to do to bring this one back from the murk.

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Linen4

This face came together pretty fast in only two sessions; the landscape had been sitting around for a while, though. 

Third Panel

Only two sessions so far, punctuated by six months.   No figure yet.... 

Panels Continued

Two more, the bottom one is just starting.  The top one was nice an an earlier stage, but needed some grunge and cold.  I didn't use the auto on Photoshop here (previous post had)  There's a lot of subtlety of surface in these from matte areas I want to feel cool and some of the darks I want to be wet.  Any contrast adjust tends to blow out the haze which is part of the atmosphere.

Linen Panels

I've been working on (among other things)  these small linen panels for the January show.   This one is almost there.