Watch out for the flash, it might work with a matt watercolor, but it will create a reflection if there are any glossy spots, and it seems to skew the contrasts and emphasize the whites and yellows.  I can't get pictures under glass with out seeing me in the mirror there, but some day I might afford a polarizing filter which can eliminate the reflections.

I painted four images, a pastel and experimented with the "magic eye" phenomena; I have only posted 3 so far.  And those crazy videos from the VSC are from a late night in my studio.  Truly we had had very little to drink, I think we were giddy on so much painting, it being probably 2:00 am, and the rush of friendship bonding so rare in the day to day.

hi ho!

G 

PS, the Magic Eye is easy to google 

I do believe your photographer has lost a customer! I think your new postings look great although on the right side of one of them you may need to crop in a little more, I can see the edge. I always use the highest resolution setting with my digital camera, and I almost always use a flash, but when the sunlight is direct, its probably more color correct to not use the flash. Its easy to photograph paintings before they are under glass. I guess the only time I focus on details with jpg's is when I need to resize them to 4x6 300dpi for juried show submissions. 

You might try a "serious" caran d'ache painting/drawing.  I have sometimes used them to understand whats behind a painting's pallette, I did some redrawing of Klee and discovered he used a primary triad for all of the works, but in order to get the right colors on one, I found I needed to substitute sienna for red and turquoise for blue.  The yellow was a lemon + white.

I have a bunch of tiny nudes drawn from a book I have of figure paintings, like 1.5x2.5 inches.  I use the crayons straight, draw on scraps and transfer with a brush to paper.  You might try a sketch next time with a few and see if you like them as much as I do.  They can be printed, too, by putting wet paper on top and running 'em through a press.

Glad to read your posts.  Congrats on the camera!  It seems easier to move back from the art to get the edges straight.  Are you up to speed on some sort of sizing program?

Cheers 

just stopped by to see if you posted more new work, anything in the works?

So is your usual process to draw w/ watercolor pencils, (wet?) then add color washes?  Perhaps you don't actually scratch the paper with a brush handle at all, those marks are the color pencil marks? 

 Do you ever use caran de'ache crayons?  I just got a cheap set of water-based "oil" pastels.  Its like drawing with lipstick, pretty fun.  The former are nice to draw onto wet paper too.

Thanks for the comment, "daring-pink", it makes me feel 'wild' such as a fauvest!  This painting is 44"x55", and done with a lot of oil crayon, from a sketch I drew from as an imaginary place.  I have been working out paintings like this of late, and am happier with the result than with plein aire, despite not being out-of-doors.

Have you seen some of Whistler's little painting sketches?  Reading your list of favorites makes me think you might find them interesting, if not colorful. 

Thanks for your comments on "Near Oprah". It was done from a photo a friend took, so I took liberties with it. Staying loose ain't easy, but I think just letting a wash of raw sienna go and then hitting with minimum details did the trick on this one. It's hard not to mess with them more.

Your stuff is great as well. I have trouble with the very things that you center on. It would do me good to study your title see if I could get better in that area. Great gallery.