Work In Progress: Glade Creek Grist Mill, Update 7               I’ve spent at least twenty hours developing the composition, including value and color sketches, layouts and drawing the final composition in pencil before going to the painting. I transferred the pencil drawing to 300 lb Arches watercolor paper. The size of the painting will […]

The Preliminary Composition The Value and Color Sketches are meant to get the values balanced and to make sure that I’m happy with the color choices. They do not contain more a minimum of detail. I do have a problem in that any time I put pencil or brush to paper and work up sketches, […]

Work In Progress: Glade Creek Grist Mill, Update 6 Some unforeseen business has suddenly reared its ugly head and I won’t be able to post Update 6 tomorrow. I will try my best to get the Update posted by March 28. I’m working on the final composition but have had to postpone work because of […]

The Color Sketch After working up a number of color sketches, I believe I’ve come up with one that looks good. When I looked at the photo something about the sky caught my attention. It was very subtle, but it was there. The lightness of the sky just above the background trees suggested a very […]

The Value sketches. The purpose of the Value sketches is to explore alternative layouts that give balance to the composition and highlight the center of interest – the Mill. As I looked at the photo of the Mill I could see that a lot of the work had already been done. Still, I don’t want […]

As I do with every painting, I’m going to go through the planning and thinking stages as well as the painting stages. I find it very worthwhile doing this each time I create a painting. It keeps me from rushing into the painting process before I think through the composition. No matter the subject, whether […]

Work In Progress: Glade Creek Grist Mill, Update 2 Before getting into the actual painting process I wanted to discuss some considerations that are important to producing a good representation of snow. I like to do background research on the subject I’m working on as well as the techniques that impact directly on the painting. […]

Work In Progress: Glade Creek Grist Mill, Update 1 I’ve been wanting to paint a snow scene for a long time. There have been two paintings I’ve done that had snow in them, but not as an important part of the subject matter. My painting of “Raine and Megan” has snow as the backdrop and […]

Savannah, a portrait in graphite is now complete. The full discussion with all the updates can be found on My Art Journal here: http://rcdevinefineart.blogspot.com/ Beginning next week I will be posting weekly updates to Works in Progress here as well. Please come back to follow the discussions as I work through a painting or drawing […]

This is my brand new website. It’s still under construction, so I hope you’ll bear with me as I get it going. I promise you won’t be disappointed. In this Journal I’ll be posting Work In Progress updates on all the paintings I’m working on, as well as any news of events or just my […]