CLU Water Tower Plein Air, 8x10 Inches on Canvas Panel, Sat 25th July 2015

I was over at CLU campus the other day to help my friend move his studio out, on the Saturday the sun was really hot, but i was determined to get a painting done, The House and tower have been on my painting radar for years, finally i got to paint it!
The Egg Shell Blue of the Inherited culture of Sweden really gave me some Great colours to mix along with the shadows and light, i really loved trying to get this on canvas, think i'd like to have another go with a bigger canvas as the the windows and doors were tricky, all in a days work! :)

This was the First Hour of Painting, Mixing Clean Colour and Getting the Drawing Correct!

The Painting when i stopped after a couple of Hours, some areas just needed a clean up...

The Final Result after a few Edges and Touch up! :)

A few Michigan plein airs that need a little TLC...

So going through my draws of paintings, theres a few that just needed a bit of TLC here and there, so while waiting for the Big one from yesterday to dry i will work on these studies from my trip to michigan of which was a total thrill for me to see such huge fields of green with the amazung silohs and barns! :)

Reading in the Summer Garden...

A while ago i did a small oil sketch at descanso gardens just as all the roses were blooming, i came across it and decided it deserves to be done a bit bigger, so here we go!...16x14 Inches...Oil on canvas....i also take a tip from richard schmid when i watched him paint up in vermont, he made sure his focus was the most interesting in regarding, drawing, values colour and edges, so thats what im going for here!

Beach Oil Sketches July 11th 2015

Had Great fun on Saturday afternoon at the beach, time to work up a composition from my plein air studies...more to come!