Portrait Studies

3D Work

I find it instructive, and fun, to make clay models from time to time.  They help me understand the forms I'm trying to paint.  I can position the light from any direction, and see what effect it has.
                                     
Here's a couple of shots of one such, and a study (below) based on it.

Head Study, 2011.  Oil on panel, 7 x 8".

Heavy Snow -- Study

Snow Study, 2011.  Oil on Panel, 6 x 8".

I thought we'd seen the last of the snow, but winter's holding on here.  It's hailing golf balls out there...

Gumushel's

 

Gumushel's, 2011.  Oil on Panel, about 10 x 12".  Commission.

Here's some of the characteristic architecture of our seaside towns. Tall houses, side by side, steep roofs.  They're often brightly colored, though not always from behind, as here.