Thursday, September 24, 2009

martini olives 12x9

This painting took me a few days to complete. I as pretty busy with other things this eek so I didn't really have any large chunks of time to devote to it. I had originally planned on taking several pictures of it to document the painting process. Unfortunately, after taking the initial picture of the beginning layout I misplaced my camera so all I have are a before and after with none of the hopped for in between shots.

I typically start my paintings by blocking the composition in with a warm neutral tone. In this case it's transparent red oxide mixed ith a little bit of turps.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Glad to see that you are still pluging along. See you at the placer arts preview show?

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Diane Hoeptner said...

So DELIGHTED to find your art & blog, look forward to seeing more. Wonderful, wonderful work.

craigstephens said...

Hi Frank,
I'll see you there!

Thank you Diane!

Tonja in Sacramento said...

I LOVE the parts of the entire process...Post more of these! It helps those of us who can barely draw a smiley face to know how art "becomes"...

Ana said...

yummy!