More on my artistic side.

I would like to share some of my paintings and drawings.

Friday, March 4, 2022

Paradise Beach....


 A beach area where my wife and I sat to do paintings.  The location is along Lake Superior and north of Grand Portage, Minnesota.  It is actually located on an Indian Reservation even though it is a drive off from the highway. The sand is different here as the beach is made up of many small rocks and not sand. The land that projects out is next to an island where seagulls hatch new birds.  The painting is done is pastel and was done mostly on the site. I think I tweaked it a little when back in the studio.  I have been digging through my past paintings and realized that I have not photographed  many of them.  I took shots of 12 new items just this morning.  I am glad I have the originals and that I can take shots of them for the net.

Friday, February 25, 2022

Rock Painting


 

I have painted on rocks for a long time.  Most of them were scenes of the North Shore, Minnesota.  There were usually light houses sitting on the rocks and the presentations were pretty flat.  This rock is a painting of a large rock formation that would sit along the Lake Superior.  The rock textures are painted on there with enhancement of some of the natural texture of the rock. 



This is a side view of the rock showing its natural surface.  The painting was in progress when I took this photo.



I added a larger sea gull after I took this shot.  Painting birds on the rocks really requires them to be more impressionistic, globs of paint that resemble a sea gull. 



While I painted on the rock I had to lean it on another rock to be able to paint the bottom of it.



This is the back side of the rock showing how it looked before I started.  My wife and I use to sit along the North Shore and paint the shoreline of the North Shore. I had plenty of memory resource to create the painting that I did on the front side of this rock.  The rocks along the shore are made up of iron ore. If I didn't mention it before, these rocks were collected in the areas all along the shore from Duluth to Grand Marais. 



This is an example of the pastel painting that I did along the north shore.

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Long Lost Artwork by Me....


 I painted this back in 1990.  I gifted it to my oldest brother and his wife for their 25th wedding anniversary.  I remembered it but did not take a photo of it back then.. I saw a video of my brother's house a week ago and saw the painting.  What a trip back into time that was.  I asked my brother to take a photo and send it to me.   I found this photo of the stairs in a New Mexico magazine to imitate.  I then added a pot from the native American division done by potters.  The one has the feather pattern on it.  The other is a pottery piece that I had made for a college class.  As an artist I have improved a lot in 32 years. I do still admire this though and appreciate my composition and use of color in the piece.  When I say it was a lost piece it really should say it was just forgotten.