"Coyote"

Recently finished this coyote and have been letting it 

sit for a while to make sure I didn't need or want

to tweak it somewhere.

8" x 10" palette knife oil on canvas panel

Here's the photo I worked from.

I've decided I want to do another, larger,

painting as well. Enlarged the coyote and have it 

set up on a 10" x 10" canvas panel, with 

less background. Can't wait to start. 

I saw him again last week on my walk, 

but my camera was in the shop.

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Why You Should Finish What You Start

"Prickly Pear"

SOLD

8" x 10" palette knife oil on canvas panel, unframed.

Started on site, finished in the studio. I posted earlier versions of

this painting as I worked and have just, finally, finished it this week.

Why should you finish what you start? It feels so good!

Painting Progression - Prickly Pear

Yesterday I started a "Self-Study" workshop with Meredith Milstead. It meets 4 Sunday afternoons in May and I've chosen to work on my "unfinished plein air" pile of paintings which is getting rather large. I'm starting with the one I began a few days ago. The top photo is my subject at a plein air paint out with Tuscon Pastel Society at Tanque Verde Ranch. Next is the block-in, value study, done that morning and the bottom photo shows what I accomplished in class yesterday - still a lot to be done, obviously. I'd like to achieve more of a broken color effect on the prickly pear pads, but am not sure I can manage that. 

I'll be working from photos in class, though she prefers we work from life - thus my homework will be studying reflected light, and I'm tasked with painting something each day and sending her a photo - to prove I'm working! It's getting hot here in Tucson, and I'll be working from a still-life setup, so I bought 3 pretty Bartlett pears this morning.