A Full Week

Off to the KLN workshop for school. Father's Day weekend is busy also. Not only are we hosting the Kansas State Time Trial Championships on Saturday, we are off the Cub Scout camp on Sunday for a few days.

Will be back to painting in a week.

6/10/2011

Grandma's Horse Lamp. A picture I have sketched several times and will many more in the future.

6/9/11

Decided to try out the lines. Used my handy compass to measure out the distances. It was funny on the 6/8/11 pic I was looking all over for a ruler to measure out the widths of the vertical lines then realized I could use the compass to create units. Todays work is with raw umber, yellow ochre, azo yellow and titanium white. Getting antsy about reds and blues, but those tubes are almost gone. Cannot wait to get some more paint.

Starting to think about some pieces that will involve more work and more days. Will also have to move to the oils for more colors.

6/8/10

Went a little more complicated today. Used yellow ochre and cerulean blue and titanium white. Decided to use vertical lines to divide the plane vertically. I repeated the vertical lines about three quarters of the length of the painting. The circles with no intersections match colors with the first two vertical lines, the parts of the circle with one intersection match the third vertical lines, so on and so forth. the cerulean blue circles are the fourth intersection of circles. Any questions?

The extra was fun and a blast from the past. In the early nineties my art was mostly in the form of abstract expressionism. Lots of colors, lines and layers. I will try to post an example later, not finding one right away on the computer. Maybe need to take some pictures of that work.

6/7/2011

Finished the two flowers from May, this being the second. Now I feel better being caught up. The extra is interesting. It is nice to let the paint do the work.

6/6/2011

A little change of pace. These are sketches drawn in May that I never got around to painting. I let the circle sketches and the extras influence the way the color was applied. The dots were a last minute addition. Cadmium yellow holds the spotlight with titanium white and a dash of ultramarine blue.

6/5/2011

Raw umber, titanium white and a hint of alizarin crimson. They made me think of chocolate.

6/4/2011

These are burnt sienna and cadmium yellow. This brown color is a contrast to the cooler brown color created with the raw umber on 06032011. This has a nice golden warmth.

6/3/2011

Took a little break from the world in Pittsburg and took off to Branson, MO for the Leaming Family Reunion. Had a blast visiting with the relatives! At any rate we are back in town and life goes on. These two are raw umber and cadmium yellow. The 2nd intersections are nice with their yellowness. I have to fight the urge to use some way out there color to contrast the interesections.

6/2/2011

Payne's Gray and Cadmium Yellow. Not that you can tell there is yellow. For some reason I find Payne's Gray fascinating. Is it the touch of blue? Is it the sensation of being pulled into the color? Not sure. There was enough leftover paint to get the "extra" postcard. The edges are interesting.

6/1/2011

Today's was a practice in no intersections. I like how the vertical lines are a touch not perpendicular to the edge. Paynes's Gray and Cadmium Yellow.

Do you ever wonder when a color stops being a particular hue? These little paintings have me pondering. I like the idea of starting with two out of the tube colors, making a mix and then have the intersections of the circles move to one of the out of the tube colors.