More examples of my process

 It has been a while since I last posted about my process. Today I decided to reiterate on the last step. This is a still life that I set up and had done some thumbnails for. I liked the square format for this painting. Like last time I sketched out shapes first and then laid down a dark purple hard pastel for the value under painting. The values ended up being close to where I would like them to be besides the old jar. The next step is doing a color study while waiting for the under painting to dry. If all goes well that will be up tomorrow.

This past weekend

On Saturday I was down at the IUPUI regatta. This event has been put on the last couple of years and they race canoes up and down the canal. They also have a paint out going on simultaneously. This is a kind of rare painting for me and it was a lot of fun to do. Typically I don't put figures in my paintings. The painting was originally larger but I cropped it down to get a better feel of what I wanted to show. There were two other artist from the southport artistry committee at the event. I'm happy to say that each of us took home an award. Nicholai Shaver (http://nicholaishaver.com/) took home the big prize and Duane King and I took home merit awards. If they put on the event next year, I've already got an idea for what I want to do. By then I should be better at painting both figures and the man made landscape with pastel.