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Another fauvist portrait. Mostly these are experiments in color ...

"Accidental Portrait"

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A fauvist portrait of a real-life model:

Sarah, the model.

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Two self portraits in a Fauvist palette, which, for the record, do not actually look anything at all like me :)

Ok, how depressing. From Dec. to July, I've only managed to add these 40 entries to my blog. Picasso painted over 60,000 pieces in his lifetime and Van Gogh did 9000 just in a 10 year span. At this rate it's going to take me a 10 years to get to my 1000. Oh well, one step at a time ...

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A still life with lemon. Yellow is a tricky color to do ...

in progress

Final painting.

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This was a painting I did for an end-of-year show at the academy. It started as a pencil sketch:

A couple of intermediate test sketches ...

Here it is, work in progress...

Here's a frame-in-progress

And the final piece

The final painting, with a few color-theory lessons applied to it.

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A final color study with neutrals on a cool background ...

An egg

An egg, framed.

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A color study analyzing shifts in colors with distance over a cool background:

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Another color exercise in Color Pencil. Paul Klee's Mountain Village (Autumnal)

original

Copy

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Another Color Pencil exercise, copying Paul Klee's 'New Harmony' (Guggenheim)

Tricky stuff this, trying to match exact colors in an oil painting with the colors in Color Pencils...

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Another still life in Pastels featuring flowers, glass, and water. This one took the better part of a day:

(note to self: need a better picture of this one)

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An unfinished color-pencil exercise copying an oil painting by Raphaelle Peale, considered the first professional american painter of still life.

Original

Unfinished Copy

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Now for something completely different. This video was one of 10 winners in the 2011 Seattle Times 3-Minute-Masterpiece Contest (which is held annually) and was (I kid you not) screened at the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF).