Fresh and Green

The other painting

The painting above, Fresh and Green, is one of the other paintings that got me into the Indiana artist club. I recently finished a large studio painting based off of this work. This painting has a lot of design work involved and isn't particularly true to the exact scene that was in front of me. It was more about the patterns I was seeing and trying to organize it in a way that made sense to me. There was so much happening in the lower half of the scene that it had to be edited down and re-arranged to be an attractive showing of what was there. I'm a fan of visual rhythm. If I see shapes that repeat it doesn't matter what the subject material is. It could have been cars, boats, dogs, etc.., as long as it is has a flow. Anyway I need to get back to work. I am doing line and marker drawings of people using a a couple of websites. http://www.artsyposes.com/index, http://lovecastle.org/draw/. Check them out.

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.