Nun On A Box

New Still Life

Matadore Beach

I attended a workshop a few days ago with Ignat Ignatov on Matadore beach near Malibu.
 It was real fun and I got some good advice and critique from Ignatov who is a really good painter and a real nice guy.
 My friend Walt Morton was also there.
Here's two sketches that I did out on the beach that afternoon.

Here's some photos as well.

 Walt Morton and Ignatz.

Here I am painting in foreground with Ignatz in background.

More LandScape

I painted a quick sketch of Castle peak today In the Copper Basin in the Challis National Forest where I've been on vacation with my family

Toy Robot with Bone Club

A little sketch of a toy, painted alla prima. Oil On canvas.

Woman and Snake

Here's the finished painting.  30"x37" oil on canvas

Idea and color sketches

Here's a few rough idea sketches from my imagination which I created while I was trying to figure out this painting I'm working on now. There were many more of them, but I posted these few.
Here's some color sketches as well, done after I completed the charcoal "cartoon".

Woman with Snake Maquettes

Here's two maquettes made in sculpey to help me visualize the scene in the new Snake painting I posted yesterday.

I owe a big dept to James Gurney's book Imaginative Realism.

 If you haven't got a copy, pick it up pronto, its a goldmine of information for any artist working imaginatively.

Woman with Snake

Heres the charcoal "cartoon" for a new painting I've been working on.
I am painting it now and some areas of it have changed a little, but in general this is the composition.