Diver "Breaking Out" Oil Painting on Arches Oil Paper

Here's the finished piece of one of the series I am working on with a Breaking Out theme, along with my fighters. I find I am starting to paint themes about what I am experiencing in this season of my life, hence the series of fighters I have been working on along with these.
This is the smallest 12x16 and my first experiment with Arches Oil Paper. I like the bumpy quality of the texture for skin but I still prefer working on linen.
The pose should have been made a bit more dramatic by arching the legs up a bit more but I like the outcome and the abstract quality of the colors. (I will get a better camera.)
I have so much to learn but there is joy in the process!

"Breaking Out" symbolizes transitioning from one season into the new. Life is a series of seasons and sometimes the in-between times can seem a bit dark and hard to get your bearings. But there also comes a time of breakthrough when you leave the old and enter a brand new season; this is springtime. A time for joy, renewal, and a brand new expression of life.

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Nicolai Fechin Portrait Study

The look of Nicolai Fechin paintings are very unique and I wanted to do a study of this one because his drybrush technique is beautiful.

In 1911, place of honor in the Annual Winter Exhibition of the National Academy of Design in New York was assigned to a painting by thirty-year old Russian artist Nicolai Fechin (1881–1955). His “savage, splendid, and heterogeneous” canvas displayed a “barbaric mastery of form and color.” Fechin’s early preference for thick layers of color and pigment with very little oil, and a penchant for conflating the real and the abstract, would bring him international acclaim in the first decades of the 20th century.

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Daniel Gerhartz Study.

I wanted to try something a bit looser and "prettier" than what I have been doing lately. So for practice I decided to do a study of a Gerhartz painting. I love his use of color and the look of sunlight on the hair. Not exact but I think got the gist of it.

9x12" oil on canvas paper

"Hells Comin!" With Frame.

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A little progress on my newest western. I'm still not sure about the background and have a lot of work left on the figure but it's looking better!

WIP "Davy Crockett" Commission.

Another work in progress. This is the block-in for a "Davy Crockett" I am doing for a commission.
I love the sketchy way it looks now and am almost afraid to touch it:) I don't think the client would go for it though.

(was Daniel Boone to begin with but nobody will notice. Shhhh! Fess Parker actually played them both on TV :)

Makes me want to sing! "King of the wild frontier"!

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9x12" Oil on Linen mounted to hardboard and comes framed.

 

 

New work in progress "Bohannon".

Another western gunfighter themed painting. Still a lot to work on. I don't usually do paintings from TV or film but this guy "Bohannon" from the western show "Hell On Wheels" just looks the part a tough cowboy!
I'm not quite sure what to do with the background yet, but it's coming along.

Gunslinger Finished!

I finally finished my two-gunned hombre. At least I think so, or until the next time I look at it and decide it needs fixing.

It turned out well and I think this is my best yet. Now all I have to do is mount it, frame it, pray and fast till it sells. ( I might be a few pounds lighter next time you see me.)

I think I'll call it, "Fast". Also because "Slow" just doesn't have the same impact! Or maybe something tough sounding like "Cold Steel".

Texas, guns, and cowboys...what more could you ask for?

"Texas Charm"

Gunfighter Update.

Here is the latest progress on my gunfighter. I am still working on the folds in the shirt. They do not look quite right and I went a bit too dark. So I went over the shirt with a very thin white to give me room to re-work the shadows.
Also I have never painted hands before and they are a little problematic. (Who knew!)
I spent the majority of my painting class today sucking the last ounce of artistic charity out of my instructor trying to get the hands to look human and not like Snausages.

I am happy with the face, hat, and most of the right gun. The rest still needs a bit of tweaking.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

WIP Gunslinger

Slight progress!

WIP Two Guns

This is my current WIP. A portrait of a western "two-gun" gunslinger. This one is going to be fairly detailed. Which is time consuming, fun, and frustrating.
Most of what I have been doing lately is playing around with older unfinished paintings because of my injury but it's nice to be able to start an original piece.

WIP Indian Chief 9x12 oil on canvas.

Here is a WIP of a painting I actually started when I first began to oil paint but never finished.. Still not quite sure what to do to it yet to make it work. Much of the detail on the clothing and feathers need to be finished but I really want to make the face look right. I'll keep plugging away!

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Finished Tonto

Tonto (from The Lone Ranger movie). I started painting this long before the movie came out but decided to redo the whole thing. This is the finished piece. I love painting Native American and western themes because I find them full of variety, character, and color. Even though this isn’t a traditional painting I still like it for what it is…fun.

9x12 oil on canvas

Redid the background on the Castro look alike.

I don't know if that improved it any:)

WIP - updating Tonto

I haven't been able to paint much over the last couple of months due to an injury. And when I do I just have to sort of peck at it instead of slow smooth brush strokes. So I decided to update one of my very first paintings. I'm not nostalgic over keeping it because I have the photo.

Here is what my updated Tonto is looking like at the moment. What do you think so far?

Still life from class.

Here is a 12X16 still life I have been working on for far too long in my painting class. I'm almost finished!

Portrait 6X8"

I started this portrait on a dark background and I love the effect. I saw David Kassan do this.

Playing around with edges. Small 6X8.

Here are a couple of new portraits.

The first is a 6X8" oil and  the second is a 9X12" oil.