All Entries Tagged With: "Landscape Paintings"
“Mining Museum” Final Oil Painting
After struggling to paint the dormant cottonwood trees that are at the location of the museum, I decided to replace them with evergreens. Unless I decide to move to the deserts of the Middle East, I need to spend some time learning to paint a variety of trees. I liked the look of the house [...]
Lee | Jan 13, 2010 | Comments 7
English Cottage Sketch
I’ve been pouring over my new Richard Schmid book, “The Landscapes,” for the past week feeling motivated and wholly inadequate at the same time. I have to keep telling myself that this guy has a few decades of canvas on me. What was also mildly depressing was that the paintings in the book from 1967 [...]
Lee | Dec 20, 2009 | Comments 1
Learning from the Masters – Study #2
Author’s note: The image above is not my original work. It was painted by me but as a study of an original piece by Clyde Aspevig for educational purposes only. The original work can be found here.
After two failed attempts at creating something interesting at the easel today, I decided to slow down and revisit my [...]
Lee | Nov 29, 2009 | Comments 3
Jay Moore Color Mixing Exercise
I received my new Mitchell Albala “Landscape Painting” book today from Amazon.com, which is hot off the press as of November 17th. I have not read the book yet but when I saw Jay Moore’s painting on the front cover, I thought, “Dang, I wish my colors looked that good.” Then I thought, what better [...]
Lee | Nov 19, 2009 | Comments 2
Highlights from Jay Moore Large Canvas Demonstration
Unbelievable. I just spent three really great days at Jay Moore’s latest large canvas demonstration workshop in Parker, Colorado. Since I have collected several of Jay’s works and have an intense interest in improving my landscape painting skills, I thought the workshop would be a great opportunity to see a true professional artist at work and [...]
Lee | Nov 14, 2009 | Comments 6
“Pikes Peak Sunrise” Oil Painting
Since I will be back to planes, trains and automobiles next week as I travel to Boston, New York and Baltimore, I wanted to complete a painting to keep some momentum going. The piece above is of the sunrise on Pikes Peak yesterday morning as viewed from my house. I feel very fortunate that I [...]
Lee | Nov 01, 2009 | Comments 6
“September at Ponte Vecchio” Oil Painting
Well so much for progress shots. I totally got into this one on Sunday. I started painting about 2pm and finished at about 10pm Sunday night. I made a few obligatory adjustments before I went to work this morning and this is the result. I must say that starting off with the tight sketch with [...]
Lee | Oct 26, 2009 | Comments 6
“Mayflower Gulch” Oil Painting
Update 9/18: Per a recommendation by Randy Saffle, I decided to rework the mountains and sky a little. Basically, I loosened up the detail on the mountain and lightened up the shadows and sky to introduce a bit more atmosphere. In all, I like the adjustment as it takes the image a little farther away [...]
Lee | Sep 13, 2009 | Comments 6
“Castlewood Cascade” Oil Painting
After taking two weeks off from painting due to traveling to both coasts in two weeks, it was fun to get back to the brushes. This painting was inspired by my hike in Castlewood Canyon a couple of weeks ago. I originally thought this painting was going to be all about the water but came [...]
Lee | Aug 18, 2009 | Comments 2
“Autumn Aspen” Oil Painting
I really did not plan to paint this weekend. On top of being totally crazy at work, fitting in a concert at Red Rocks on Thursday, taking in a major league baseball game on Friday, and a memorial service on Saturday, I was pretty worn out and was looking forward to a weekend of not [...]
Lee | Jul 26, 2009 | Comments 2
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