Workshop Demo

Here's a digital painting demo I did at the Art Institute San Diego. Total painting time was about 2 hours after lecturing and answering questions. It was a packed room and I received a lot of positive feedback. I hope to continue doing these at school every quarter. The next workshop will be a digital landscape workshop. This time i will try to work in layers so that the attendees can see more of my process.

Bum portrait

Bum's have the greatest faces sometimes. This fellow was walking around downtown Seattle when I noticed him and took the photo. My medium for this painting is gouache and watercolor on oatmeal colored scrapbook paper.

More Venice gondolas

Here is a watercolor and gouache color study for a large painting that I will be painting in oil. The final size for the oil painting will be something close to 20" x 30"



This study of a gondola was also painted in watercolor and gouache. For both studies, I'm interested in the color relationships rather than the specific color that I see when I stare intently. I'm trying to resolve the color harmony and the mixing before I get to the more refined finished oil painting.

Downtown SD

Tivoli bar and grill located on 6th and Market St. in Downtown SD. This was done on location in about an hour or so. This is watercolor and gouache in my sketchbook. The paper is for drawing but it has a roughness and thickness to it much like cold press WC paper (but for about 1/3 the cost).

Tuscany Fence

Here's another quickie somewhere in the Tuscan countryside. I have more stuff to upload but I need some time to actually photograph them.

Cinque Terre

Another from my Italy trip a couple years ago. Has it really been that long? I forget which of the 5 towns this was but I'm guessing it was Vernazza. I was pretty sick this day and had on the wrong pair of shoes to hike the trails connecting the towns.

Gondola anyone?

Another Photoshop quickie. The best thing about digital is I don't have any brushes to clean or dried paint to scrape off my palette!