The next step

I have worked from the live nude periodically since the early 1970's. This blog started August 9th, 2012 in my second year of working almost exclusively from the figure.

In the fall of 2015 I reintroduced still lifes and an occasional cityscape into my painting repertoire. Rather than abandon this figure blog or start a new one I decided to add them to the conservation.

All drawings and paintings posted on this blog were done entirely from live models or on location.

Friday, January 4, 2019

Getting The Red Out

Prior to switching to a limited palette for my figurative work my biggest complaint was recurring "orange/brown" flesh tones. I mistakenly thought that a limited palette would solve this and a multitude of other issues. It didn't occur to me that red might assert itself leading me down an all to familiar path.


                          Oil on canvas, 12" X 10"                Oil on canvas,  14" X 12"

Red is by far the strongest toning pigment in my palette. I'm afraid the reds got out of hand with the study on the left. Encountering the same model a few weeks later this last November I set out to remedy this.




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