Here we have the painting after two days of work. I filled in the background with rough scratchy brushwork a few days ago, and let that dry so that it wouldn’t interfere with the subsequent layers. Then I laid in the outline of the working drawing by tracing the lines projected by the Opascope in various colors that I felt the edges needed to be. From here it will be filling in and modeling the form with as much interest and variation in the paint and brushwork as I can muster. More to come soon.

This is a new type of image I’m beginning to explore. I want to capture a bit of that thinking with lines that goes on in my sketch book, but with a line tool that’s a bit more varied than a pencil lead. This work is sumi ink on Rives printing paper.

Bicycles, 18x24", oil on panel.

I think this painting might be done. I wanted overall to have a very loose feel to it, but to have little areas that were sharply realistic without sacrificing the texture of the paint and brushstrokes. I plan to pursue more in this vein.

I’d love to get comments and critiques from those of you reading, so please, take some time and let me know what you think.