Main Track Open

Main Track Open

I finally finished this painting which has been languishing as I've been learning about oil pastels.  It's from a photo I took in Salina, Kansas.  I tried to capture low light spilling onto the open-ness along the tracks.

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Lefkara Street

Lefkara Street

This is from a photo I took several years in Lefkara, Cypress.  Actually I did it from a pencil drawing of the same photo.  Oil pastels on Canva-Paper, 12 x 16.  The towns on the island of Cypress are a photo-rich environment.

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Light Shaft (revised)

Revised shadow

Got a very helpful comment yesterday on my street shadow.  I think this shadow is better than the pencil I did before.  I really appreciate getting comments/criticism.  

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Light Shaft

Light Shaft

I thought this picture was really cool.  Love how it takes you in.  

Oil pastels on gesso board, 8 x 10.

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Afternoon Light

Afternoon Light

Another oil pastel study on some photos I have of Venice.  The shadow makes a strong composition element to the vanishing point at the edge of the water.  I used a lot of linseed oil in the water to smooth it out.  This is really cool stuff to work with.  

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Mountain Barn

Mountain Barn

My second go with oil pastel crayons.  I'm working on different ways I can learn to blend.  A dab of linseed oil on a rubber tip brush works pretty well.  I'm experimenting.  These are really sketchy, but fun because they're so fast.  Only have 14 colors (including b & w) so I'm looking forward to getting a bigger set.

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Arles Morning

Arles Morning

pastel oil crayon on canva-paper

So I was looking for something in my art junk drawer, can't remember what, and I ran across this pad of "Canva-Paper".  Then I ran across some old, old "Cra-Pas" art sticks that I have had forever.  

This is from a photo I took in Arles, France.  I have a painting halfway done of this scene in oil right now, but I thought I would just see what these oil crayons did on the same setting.  I only have 14 different colors, so it's limited but I dunno....I thought this looked kinda cool.

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Abandoned

Charcoal study for 'Abandoned'

I was going to put more "stuff" in the foreground like a wheel, maybe some junk.  I thought stark was better.  doorway needs something.

If anyone wants some of these I'll let them go for a reasonable price.  They're mostly just on newsprint, 18 x 24.

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"Around the Block"

These are my entries at the Parklane Gallery for October.  the web site with more info is on the flyer.

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Parklane Gallery - October

I have 3 new works for October and 2 repeats (Rainstorm and Sunflowers).  These images are raw, without frames to save space on the page.  Rod's Lake is oil, One Headlight is charcoal and Red Door is pastel.  (I just started pastel work, so am going through a first stage learning curve.)   Although, everything is a learning curve now, isn't it?

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Charcoal study for Main Track Open

Main Track Open

Tracks heading east from Salina.  I took out alot of detail and moved the switch to experiment with composition.  Almost has a B&W negative effect using my eraser on the trees and grain elevators in the distance.  I did this whole thing in 20 minutes so it's pretty loose.

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