Spring on the Western Slope is an especially inviting time of year. Coming out of winter, most of us welcome these teasingly warmer days. Take this past Sunday for instance. We had been watching the weather forecast to see if the nice warm days we were having would make it to the weekend and we were nicely rewarded. My wife …
Skip
Here is a recent portrait I did of a fella I had the good fortune to work with on a couple of sled dog races a few years ago when we had our dogs. He is a heck of a mountaineer too. Skip has the greatest beard and a classic outdoors type of ruggedness to his features. This was a fun painting …
Catching Up
Yes, it has been a while hasn’t it? Been busy with framing for the most part but have managed to get a few paintings done. I’ve really been enjoying doing portraits. I used to do a lot of figure work to include portraits years ago but for some reason strayed away from it. Of course all of the portrait work was commissioned …
Jim Dziura
This is the finished oil sketch done of my son Jim Dziura, an independent film maker and director in California. Jim stopped by last month for a visit and I got a couple of photos of him. The painting was started with a charcoal sketch on canvas and then through a series of washes and development I arrived at what I …
Stage seven
I’m almost done. well actually I’m not sure one ever gets done but I think I’m beging to get the likeness and am just looking for the last view adjustments to make.
Stage six
Now I begin to work on some detail and further refine edges, lights and darks.
Stafge five
The face is begining to take on some character at this point.
Stage four
Still filling in some color and developing the darks and lights.
Stage three
Here I begin to add a little color. I am using burnt sienna, french ultramarine blue and white. Three colors.
Stage 2
In this stage I applied more wash to develope value and modeling.