
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Painting in Wenatchee
Last half of Last week I was on vacation and in Wenatchee for skiing and painting. Saturday afternoon when the temperature was not too low (lower 30s), I drove down on Malaga-Alco hwy along Columbia River. A little after I passed Alco Wenatchee plant I stopped my car and set up my easel on the south side of the road. I was attracted by the icy hills and sagebrush on the bottom. I spent about 2 hours to paint this. I could have spent more time but the temperature started dropping and oil paint was becoming stiffer. So I gave up. Even though I didn't spend much time to create proper colors for sagebrush, I think I somewhat captured the coldness of the hills.

Friday, January 30, 2009
In-class Umbrella Painting

I stopped painting this in about 3.5 hours. No break. So, I was tired at the end. But the outcome wasn't too bad to me. By the way the canvas size was 22"x26".
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Color Making: putting to the test

Tonight I worked on the "East of the Mountains"again to make some progress. Also tried putting the color making way from the class to the test. Although the highland in the background became too pinkish, sagebrush got almost final colors. Next, I need to blur the mountains further and cover more underpaint with dried grass in the foreground.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Brush Strokes of Confidence
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
1st week at Color Boot Camp

Next week, we'll be painting still life only based on the colors we made without mixing them togather. I'm guessing now it would be similar to drawing with pastel. We'll see.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Green vs. Brown

Working on background trees. Since green is complementary to red (or light brown) the background makes the horse livelier. I put the first touch of mane on canvas. But it's still experimental. It's just to decide the edge with the background green. Even the values are not correct. At this moment, it's not so important.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Color changes based on distance
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Making Darker
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Good Old Faithful

Even though I've been recently painting cows as animal subjects, horses are always one of my favorite subjects. The last one I did was back in Sep. 2005, "Golden Mane". It's been more than three years without painting any horses. But I finally came back to them. A friend of mine has been asking me painting a horse she and her husband own at their ranch-like home in IL. This would be a good practice before working on their horse. I'm thinking another horse painting after this, or later, for the coming-up Jun-Jul show.
I took some photos of this horse and others at a ranch just a couple miles east from Cle Elum along SH-10 that runs parallel to I-90 on the opposite side of Yakima River. I particularly liked this two color horse. The canvas size is 20"x24". I put underpainting with complementary colors. The title of this should be "breeze". You would understand why as soon as I painted her mane.
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