En Plein Air with Court Jones

One day I lugged all my paint equipment to the beach. It was my first landscape in oil, and I learned alot, from the experience, but mostly what not to do. I actually was married on the beach in the lower right in front of the big rock 5 years ago.

8x10 3hours's Swami's Beach

La Jolla

So Court Jones and I have been painting outdoors on Wednesdays. The first time out was an adventure, and my painting really didn't come out the way I envisioned it. It will never be viewed by human eyes, again.

Court is a great instructor, and really knows his stuff. I feel like I'm improving, but there is still alot to learn.

9X12 3hours

The view I painted.

Philly Bound completed

This was an interesting process.

The model posed for this painting a month ago. Then she came back and and posed another 3 hours for the workshop. This time I added the color.

In my class earlier that week we just learned about glazes. So I thought I would try it for this painting because I liked the underpainting so much. It wasn't as easy as I thought. I glazed over this maybe 4 times. Each time I rubbed off the paint. Either because I didn't know what I was doing or it looked bad. Maybe the combination of all my mistakes helped with the over all look, but the painting was mostly done in the last 40 minutes of class.

I liked this process (except all the rubbing) it was kinda like watercolor painting, and seemed easier than painting Alla Prima.

Coffee shop owner

I'm taking a painting class at Studio 2nd Street
One of the lessons is a burnt umber pick-out, to learn the values, and then to paint over it with color. I've been having trouble with the whole process so I went to the studios open workshop to practice.

I had alot of fun with this one, instead of my usual frustration with paint.

The model owns the coffee shop across the street. I think its a symbiotic relationship.

12X16 canvas board
2 hours ?