Notes

Beginning to fill in the background color

At this point, I’ve filled most of the background with the base color for the canvas.  It’s very rough at this point, but I wanted to get a feel for the contrast . I’ll go back and tighten it up a bit before it’s over.  There’s a second tone of blue to be added, but this is the lighter of […]
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So where was I?

Hello, back from the Hinterlands. I was off working on a couple of new and exciting ventures for most of the year.  They’ll debut in earnest in 2015. Though one of the projects is art-related, it is somewhat different than the work in the jazz series, so I didn’t want to post about it here, although I will do a […]
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Presenting “San Francisco Slides”

It took me while to get it done, because of the necessity to complete some other commitments, but here is my first completed work of 2014, “San Francisco Slides”. The “Slides” part of the title references the slides of the trombones featured in the image, as well as the sloping angles of the streets. The painting was done in acrylic […]
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San Francisco Slides Study Video

I’ve been working on a finishing up a couple of pieces before starting work on the canvas for a new painting called “San Francisco Slides”. Here’s a video of digital painting study which I produced. Updates on the progress of the painting coming soon! In the meantime, here’s a little teaser — with music!
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Detour

So I was working on “San Francisco Slide” when I posted back in June.  I had to wrap up some loose ends on another project in July and at the moment I’m tightening up two paintings that I started awhile back. I plan to have those completed by week’s end. In the meantime, I’ve been doing a bit more development […]
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Black Is The Color…

One of the questions that has come up over the years is why the figures in my jazz series are painted in black.  I want use this forum to address that question. When I decided to produce this series more 20 years ago now, I wanted  to create one in which  the figures were more representational of musician rather than […]
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