Cyclops Jack-o-lantern

This one might be my favorite of all the ones I have ever carved.

GoT Pumpkin

A Game of Thrones pumpkin

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Last evening at the pumpkin hub

The shed was packed with both pumpkins and pumpkin artists yesterday. The show opens on Thursday. Lots of beautiful pumpkin artwork being crafted.

The pumpkin nexus

Cyclops pumpkin

Drawn, but not yet cut.

Painted pumpkin

Here's a small pumpkin I painted per mom's request. This was put on with acrylics.

White Rabbit Pumpkin

For the Jack-o-lantern Spectacular, here's my first pumpkin, drawn a week ago but not yet carved.

Whitehall pen-and-ink work-in-progress

Small landscape

I just adjusted one of the tree trucks a little, and now I think I will call it done.

Thumbnail sketc

Work starting on a new house portrait

Dog Portrait, oil on panel, 16 x 20 inches

I finished a commissioned pet portrait last week, in oil paint. I haven't met the dog personally, but in the photos I was provided she looked like an incredibly sweet dog.

(Detail)

8 1/2 x 10 house portrait in pen and ink

house portrait

I draw this with a mixture of disposable technical pens and sumi ink with dip pens.  It's a pretty house, and I was especially enjoying the shadows of the trees.

Pen and Ink House Portrait

10 x 16 house portrait, finished last weekend. Black and white on paper. This was a combination of sumi ink and disposable technical pens.

House Portrait

detail

Pen and Ink House Portrait in Old Louisville

8 x 10 inches.  This was a combination of Pigma Micron pens and sumi ink with a dip pen.

Coffee lightfastness test

Here is the result of a light exposure test for drawing or painting with coffee. This ran from March 19 to May 8.

So far, the coffee is relatively lightfast.  I expected much more fading than is evident.

The experiment is continuing.

House portrait in pen and ink, 10 x 14 inches

House portrait

House portrait detail

House portrait detail

Oil landscape details

"Early Spring, Floyds Fork at Seatonville Road" oil on panel

16 x 20 inches, finished today after starting it on site last week.  As I stated in a previous post, this was a fairly limited palette. I wish my camera picked up more of the subtlety in the tones in the paint. I am pretty happy with it.  I ended up putting a bit more foliage on the trees than there was in real life, and the scene was actually less colorful than I depicted it, with the exception of the grass on the banks, which was a pretty intense green--something I could not generate with a mix of Naples yellow and ultramarine blue.

Floyds Fork at Seatonville Road

earthtone palette

Did some plein air painting last Friday. I used a limited earthtone palette like last time, with a slight change, substituting ultramarine blue for cerulean blue, and adding red iron oxide. The other colors are ivory black, titanium white, Naples yellow, burnt sienna, and burnt umber.

I didn't finish the painting on site, so worked more at home. I still want to work more. It's not resolved yet. Pictures forthcoming.

Red iron oxide is a monster, by the way. It walks up and punches other paint in the face kyst for laughs.

pen and ink details

Here are some close-ups of the drawing I just posted.