3 Sisters Watercolor 1
Here’s the first pass. So far it’s all watercolor. I may gesso and pastel over top to do some cloud stuff depending on how it goes tomorrow.
Falls Below the Tea House: Lake Louise
Woke this morning to catch the sunrise on the Three Sisters mountains in Alberta but it was overcast, so it was a bust. But I painted this waterfall from our hike at Lake Louise a few days ago instead.
Another dead tree
I saw this on my walk yesterday. I finally found a way to mount the surface to the board so I can paint the whole surface and not have any of it in shadow. I used sticky tack and so far it’s working great.
Sentinel of the Yellowstone Oil Version
I finally started back on this painting of a dead tree overlooking the Yellowstone River. Maybe I’ll get it done this week.
Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
This is a pastel I’m working on of my daughters and a couple of their friends playing with a bucket of leeches when we were in Doerr County last year.
Mother Fetching Water
This is a pastel portrait I did of a mother heading to get water on a farm.
Turkey Run Tree
Here is the spot I got to with the painting today. I like where it’s at currently, but I’ll walk away for a few days and come back and see if I want to change anything.
Turkey Run Hike Trees and Rocks
Here is something I started today. It’s a 12x16 ampersand board and the difference between this and the mi teintes surfaces is impressive. It’s way more expensive and I would never do studies with this. But maybe there is a happy medium with some of the mounted papers. The main drawback I see with this board is that I can’t figure out how to get it attached to the easel without blocking the top and bottom.
Early Morning Stream
This is a 6x8 pastel done on sennelier la carte paper. It is 100 dollars not including shipping.
Working on more little Studies
The spring house in potato creek next to some neon scum. I changed the color of the building and wanted to do a lot more but 6x8 is just too restricting for me. This paper really grips the pastel nicely though. So I am considering moving to it and moving away from the mi teinte. I like mi teinte for it’s affordability, but I am adding gesso to it to make it grippier and I think it may be time to just use it for studies and plein air only.
Handell Inspired Waterfall
These are just some rocks and water inspired by a Handell painting.
12x16 on gessoed mi teintes paper.
Wicked Scum at Potato Creek
This is a small version of painting that I am working on for my daughters.
Fallen and Sawed Tree
On the short walk with my daughters this morning we passed a tree that had fallen and been sawed up. A colleague of my wife’s has asked a few times to help me deal with some old trees near my house and I’ve still not taken him up on it. He is retiring soon, so I am going to finish this painting and give it to him.
UART 400 Paper Tree
I did this tree overtop of a swan painting that I didn’t care for. I liked this paper quite a bit. 400 might be too fine to work this small, but I don’t plan to do many 6x8 paintings anyway. I feel like I can get enough movement to make a single subject interesting enough at this size, but even still, it’s tough to stay excited when I have to zoom in so far.
Are You Hurt or Are You Injured: The Tree That Won't Give up
Here’s a painting I did of a tree I saw when I hiked Baugo Creek on Fathers’ Day.
Sunset Pier Glen Lake 2025
This was done from a photo taken while we were on our yearly vacation to Traverse City< Michigan. I did it on a 5x8 piece of Rives BFK. I like the way it takes the pastels, but it wasn’t miles better than Mi Teinte or just canon watercolor paper that I added gesso to.
Flamingos at the Zoo
My daughter turned five, and she loves flamingos; therefore, this painting was created for her.
