Sunday Oil 11 Stage 1

After meeting with Brian Minder and Marci Oleszkiewicz for a peer critique last week, I decided to use the Sunday members-only pose at the Palette and Chisel to do a painting in several layers. I first painted a color sketch of the model.

This painting was created to give myself a reference for the colors I would eventually use in the finished painting.



Once I had most of my colors in place I began what will be the basic underpainting for the finished work (see below). I wanted to get the drawing in place and to put transparent colors down mostly in the shadows and halftones so that when I start on the light and highlight areas my panel is not muddied by dark colors. I am hoping this will allow me to work fairly thinly in the lights to create a very smooth and luminous painting surface. I would like my paintings to have more of the qualities that I admire in paintings of my heros from the 17th and 18th century than I have previously been able to achieve working in an alla prima style. STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES AS THIS PAINTING PROGRESSES.

Drawings 2.21.07

More nude model drawings from quicksketch night at the Palette and Chisel. The twenty five minute pose is feeling almost long enough to get a decent contour drawing as of late.

Scott Urban Portrait Progress 2.21.07

Scott and I got some good time in on his portrait in the last few days. You can see previous states of this painting at my flickr.com site: http://flickr.com/photos/seckmanfineart/

P+C Sunday Oil #10 - 11" x 8.5"

With this painting I feel that I am starting to get
comfortable with what the value of my lights should
be. In past paintings I have had a tendency to paint
them too light. I think this one represents a
general improvement of my understanding.

Recent Drawings

Sunday Oil #9

Once again, trying to only bite off as much as I can chew. Like Grandpa Trimble always says, "Take all you want, but eat all you take".