Street Map?

This one reminds me of a street map and that may be where I got the idea from. Created with Infinite Painter on a. Galaxy tablet. It is different than most of my other digital work and is one of my favorites.

Untitled | 1500 x 2000 px

Walkways No. 05: Progress

Someone's gloves discarded or accidentally dropped and left on a sidewalk near where we live.

Usually Painter doesn't crash. However I experienced more times when Painter crashed while working on this one than any other project I have worked or am currently working on. It crashed dozens of times. Most of the crashes occurred when I was using the Fill tool on areas of the purple gray sidewalk. Fortunately I didn't loose the project and have to start over.

Point Buchon Trail No. 03 Progress

Here is another Point Buchon Trail painting. It is actually the first in the series with this title.

This progress sequence shows how I start a painting by drawing thin black outlines to define shapes. Sometimes I draw the shapes freehand without stabilizing tools with the Castell brush. This time I used the Lines & Lazy tools with the Castell brush.

After I fill the shapes with preliminary colors I trace over the black outlines of each shape with its own color without being too neat using the Old Inker brush and no stabilizing tools. I then begin to change colors and add more detail. I like to use a low tolerance setting of any where between 5--2 and sometimes as low as 1 on the fill tool.

Making a hardwood floor

Here is a progression of pictures showing how I created a hard wood floor for a work with a tall chair and a tall stack of cakes.

  1. To create the floor I used craft sticks with the rounded ends trimmed which were then glued to a piece of MDF board. I also use these same craft sticks to stir and mix paint.

  2. I then painted the surface with black paint making sure to work paint into the crevasses between the planks.

  3. After the paint was dry I sanded the surface leaving a little bit of paint for visual texture.

  4. The final image shows the finished work with the floor in place.

Walkways No. 04: Progress

This is the walk in front of condo building 3 where we live on a winter's day, 2022. I’m posting this one before I finish it and will add more pictures of it’s progress.

Behind the yellow line concept

I was standing on the platform—behind the yellow line—looking at the wall across the tracks waiting for the train to come when the idea for a piece about standing behind the yellow line near the edge of the platform. This is the first concept. I have since created several stand behind the yellow line acrylic paintings on panels. I can’t remember whether I used Sketchbook Pro or Infinite Painter to render this.

Walkways No. 03 Progress

Here is another Walkways painting. I wanted to do somthing with the steps to make them not so real. I decided to exaggerate the otherwise brown cardboard box by giving it a yellow color.

Not a real storm. It just might look like it.

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I based a small painting on one of the drawings in the Small Studies Project. Here is how it turned out.

From the Small Studies Project drawing 92 | Graphite and Lyra Water-soluble crayon on 5 x 7-inch Bristol Paper | 2012

Small Studies Painting 92 | Acrylic and paper on wood panel | 4.5 x 4.5 x 1.75 inches (11 x 11 x 4.5 cm) | 2020

Walkways No. 02 Progress

Another in the Walkways series of digital paintings shown here in progression. This one is based on a photo I took down the street from where we live. Winter was attempting to make way for Spring when the picture was taken.

Devices: Galaxy S22 Ultra mobile phone, Galaxy Tab S7 tablet | Apps: Infinite Painter 7, LitPhoto for resizing images

Some ideas come from . . .

I got the idea for this one from a book about Jackson Pollock in my personal library.

She walked as if in a dream grazing for pasture land treats on her way to visit JP. | Wood, acrylic paint, paper, sandpaper, nails, fingernail polish | 9 x 17 x 2.5 inches (23 x 43 x 6.35 cm) | June 2022

Detail with nail heads coated with nail polish.

This photo by Cecil Beaton for Vogue 1951 gave me the idea.

Concepts

This is a concept digital painting for a larger piece painted possibly on two larger panels. What size the panels would be I couldn’t say at this point. I don’t have the space to work on very large panels. I painted a small piece based on this concept as a test.

I have been considering producing what many people would erroneously call a “print”. The correct term however would be a “print reproduction” since it is a reproduction of an original even if it only exists digitally.

Digital painting concept | 3000 x 1500 px

Cayucos No. 15 | Acrylic paint on cradled panel | 16 x 16 inches (40.6 x 40.6 cm) | March 2021

My Sketchbook Library

I started my first serious sketchbook journal some time in the late 70s when I was in college. I didn’t start dating them before the 3rd volume in 1980. I have been numbering the pages consecutively so when the first book ended with page 108 the next one started with page 109 and so forth. I have numbered them as spreads instead of each side of a single page. I spend some of the time entering ideas and designs in a hard bound book and other times on my Galaxy tablet.

When I first started keeping sketchbook journals I would start at the beginning with graphic design ideas and work towards the back then I would start at the back and enter art ideas until they met in the middle. The last few books have been confined to all art ideas since moving away from graphic design. I would usually do drawings on the right side of the spread and jot down handwritten notes on the left page of the spread.

Some of the books are artist sketchbooks purchased from art supply shops and some of them are blank dummy books I got from a friend who worked for a publisher. Only one of the sketchbooks is a spiral bound tablet book while all the rest are hard bound.

17 volumes. The one with the red spine laying on it’s side is the one currently being worked on.

Tools: Windsor & Newton water color tray

I acquired this handy Windsor & Newton water color tray back in the late 70s when I was in college. I don’t do much water color work but it does come in handy now and then when I need to do some quick sketches.

It is made of tin and folds in half to make it easy to travel with. It can hold several small brushes and has a thumb hole to make it easy to hold if you want to. It is coated with durable white paint on the inside and black on the outside.