Work In Progress: Withlacoochee Flight Update 3             I’m going to do this painting entirely in colored pencil. The size will be 22” by 13”, and I’ll be using Stonehenge paper. The first step was to transfer the pencil drawing to the paper. I then started on the sky first.             Although it looks simple, […]

Work In Progress: Withlacoochee Flight Update 2             For the color sketch I used a blurred version of the final composition I put together on Photoshop Elements. The blurred version was posted here last week as the color sketch. I’m going to do this painting in colored pencil, so my next step is to figure […]

Work In Progress: Withlacoochee Flight, Update 1             Most of my nature paintings are of scenes outside my home state of Florida, either in the Appalachians or other far off, but equally appealing locales. However, there are some very beautiful natural areas here in Florida and I decided it was time to do a painting […]

Work In Progress: Louisiana Iris, Update 3             After completing the leftmost standard (petal), I completed the smaller petal in front of it. It is very light in color and required much less work. As with the previous petal, I started with lavender and defined the contours, creases and shadows, applying a bit more pressure […]

Work In Progress: Louisiana Iris, Update 2             Colored pencil painting is, by its nature, a slow process, especially if the goal is a lot of detail and density of color. Teaching a class in colored pencil painting, limited to a set number of hours, has to take these qualities into account. The Intermediate classes […]

Work In Progress: Louisiana Iris, Update 1 This summer I’m teaching a number of classes in colored pencil technique at On Top Of The World, a community in Ocala, Florida. The classes are part of an adult education program called Master the Possibilities that features hundreds of classes on a myriad of subjects such as […]

Work In Progress: Glade Creek Grist Mill, Update 17             Just received the painting back from the printer, who made a digital image for me. There was little to finish up from last week, mainly in the lower right corner. There, the snow was piling up at the base of the trunks of the trees. […]

Work In Progress: Glade Creek Grist Mill, Update 16  Nearly finished! Much of the foliage of the hemlock has been added, as well as the trunks of the other two trees. When the background woodlands and sky were added way back I the beginning, I masked out the trunks and most of the branches of […]

Work In Progress: Glade Creek Grist Mill, Update 15              I got a bit further than I thought I would over the past week. I made changes to the evergreen trees on the left, completed nearly all of the waterfall, added more of the frozen creek near the bottom and began painting in the hemlock […]

Work In Progress: Glade Creek Grist Mill, Update 14              I was finally able to get some time in this past weekend to do some work on the painting. I finished up on the conifers on the left and made some progress on the snow, rocks and frozen creek on the bottom left. More paynes […]