October

Today was a studio day- first one this week. So I painted furiously- 9:00 to 3:30 and this is the progress. 

I'll let it rest over the weekend and hopefully finish it up early next week. 

Just finished this one up today. 

Grapes-wine

Grapes are ripening- it's crush season here in Oregon. I wanted to try a still life of some of our grapes. I've worked almost 4 hours on this one already. I have enough on the panel to finish it up later. And took a shot of the grapes for reference when I have a chance to finish it. 

New series -

Going back to looking at horses and their gear, subject matter I worked on last year. I'm focusing more closely- whereas before I included whole bodies, mostly, and included riders and handlers - I'm working on composition in a more abstract sense. My choices are made on that basis- features of a horse- parts of the tack -relating areas to each other-but I do enjoy bringing into focus certain aspects that make an individual animal. I can't seem to get away from that. 

Echinacea bouquet for July.

    

Still life- last week of May

A loosely painted still life of irises and roses. This was done in 3 sessions- about 6 hours total. The actual arrangement didn't quite fit what I wanted in the composition- so I added another rose and some other greenery. 

The top left of the composition felt good, made sense - but the bottom right didn't add anything & was confusing to the whole painting. This is when I redid that part just based on composition- and then rearrNged the flowers somewhat to help me bring it together. 

I painted over a previously painted panel that I had sanded down. 

    

Back to painting.

Process pics from painting in May.