watertower at Continental Gin

Gantry and watertower by the entrance to my studio. I think I'm starting to get the hang of uing my Scene Sketcher app to paint a simplified image with a clear value structure. This was a pretty quick painting with no big problems.  71 cm x 40 cm.

Enchanted Rock

I learned quite a bit doing this. For one thing, I didn't realize that a painting of mostly saturated color was going to be so visually fatiguing. Also simple shapes and decisive paint handling helps with strong color. I ended up using larger brushes as I got further along, which is a sign I misjudged how this was going to develop. 30" x 40"

sliced apples

Small, easy painting I made while preparing a big panel for a landscape. 14 " x 17.5"

Subway sandwich

This was my pay for helping a friend with a condo renovation. 24" x 32".

Central Grocery, New Orleans

Based on a photo of my nephew in an old grocery near Jackson Square. He didn't want his picture taken, so the face is minimal. As much as possible, I'm painting abstract color masses rather than objects. I'm pretty happy with the way the shelves of bottles dissolve in the light. 100 cm x 56 cm.

lunch

From a photo of a sandwich I ordered at a coffee shop a couple of blocks from my studio. I went a little overboard with color saturation and with detail on the peeled orange. I prefer the sandwich to the orange because it's looser and more abstract. The greens started warmer, but I came to prefer cool pthalo greens. 18" x 18"

Paluxy River, Opossum Branch

Painted from a photo I took a few years ago near Glen Rose, Tx. I used my Scene
Sketcher app to simplify the image. Otherwise, I would have lost my mind struggling
with minutiae. 60 cm x 80 cm.