Path to religiously purposed building

I chose this building as the subject because its tower makes a nice change in line direction for the roof. It also breaks up the sky area to make it more diverse. To answer the inquiry of why there is no parking space for the church, the path could be considered as a path from the parking lot.

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Lighthouse point

This is an excerpted section from an attempted pen and wash painting. I think the boat looks rather nice.

House Vignette

Here is the last picture I made from the previously mentioned workshop in California.

It can stand to have the surfaces of the building to have a greater value difference. Also the tree colors turned out rather poorly.

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A little something from California

Here is a piece I did during a Tony Couch workshop at Laguna Beach during this past week. An unintended but interesting effect was that the two cliff faces in the piece seem to vibrate.

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Woodland Scene

Here is a painting that I did on October 5th that was inspired by one of Tony Couch's pieces.

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House

This picture has potential. The subject matter is fine, but it needs a center of interest with contrasting values to bring the picture to life. Unfortunately the bright colors and strong darks of the bushes draw attention away to the wrong place. After all, the house's dominant size suggests that it is the picture's focus, not the bushes.

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Biblical scene recreation

This is a reinterpretation of Jacob blessing Ephraim and Manasseh, originally done by Basil Wolverton. Jacob is not intended to look angry here, he's just frowning in concentration while praying.

15" x 11"

Happy Thanks giving

Here is a piece I just completed this Thanksgiving. I might redo this picture. I never liked the stands of trees.

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Mountain Value sketch

Here is a more advanced sketch on the subject.

Mountain Value sketches 2

Here are some more I have done for the same purpose as the first. these sketches were done as exercises in learning to reproduce paintings to areas of differing degrees of dark and light.

Mountain Value sketches 1

Here are some calligraphy pen sketches I made in preparation for a piece I intend to do in the future.

Tony Couch value pattern 6

Need I say more?

Tony Couch value pattern 5

and another...

Tony Couch value pattern 4

Yet another.

Tony Couch value pattern 3

Here is another one.

Tony Couch value pattern 2

Here is another one like the first.

Tony Couch value pattern 1

This is my value analysis of a painting done by Tony Couch. Done with calligraphy pens.

Second design attempt

This is the second attempt at my second design. There was an intermediate piece done, but due to a glitch it won't post.

First attempt at design

This was an attempt at extensively designing a piece from two sketches.

Unfortunately the house and the trees seem to float off the page because of a lack of mid-values.

Trees on a Lake Rehash

This is another attempt at Tony Couch's exercise from last post.

Trees on a Lake

This is a duplication of an exercise done in Tony Couch's book "Watercolor You Can Do It."

Shack Vignette

This is a duplication of a shack from a watercolor technique exercise in Tony Couch's book "Watercolor You Can Do It."

Arches Park design attempt 1

This is an 11" x 15" piece I did from one of the pictures I have from a past trip to Arches National Park, Utah.

Stormy Sea

Here is a 11 x 15 water piece I did recently.

Rapids

This is a 11 x 15 copy of a piece done by Gordon MacKenzie in "The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook - Landscapes."

Here is a link to his website: http://www.gordonmackenziewatercolours.com

Blue Desert

Here is a 11 x 15 stylized desert scene.

Waterfall

Here is a more extensive piece of work involving foliage on a 11 x 15 sheet.

Trees and Cat Face

Here are a couple of practice runs I did. The Trees I did today, the cat I did a while ago.

Cat face is another look at Garf, the family mascot. The trees are loosely based on a painting in the Gordon MacKenzie book, "The Watercolorist's Essential Notebook - Landscapes"

Sandstone Vista

Here is a new 11 x 15 piece that I completed on the 21st.

Petra

Here is an 11 x 15 piece I did on the 16th.

The Wave 3

Here is another 11 x 15 watercolor original I have done of the wave.

The Wave 2

Here is a new painting of the sandstone formation known as "The Wave."

This was of a photo taken in 2007

The Wave

Size 11 x 15

This was from a photo of "The Wave" in southern Utah.

The Hand

"Wax Hand"

This is a full sheet (22 x 30 in) pencil drawing of a wax model of a hand that I did while attending Washburn University. It was selected for the 2009 Annual Washburn University Undergraduate Art Exhibition.

Standing Rocks

Here is a new pen and wash that was just finished today.

Arches Park Wall

Here is today's original piece.

This scene is near the parking area of the Park Avenue trail head of Arches National Park. Another scene from the same hike was posted on December 30th of last year.

Canyonlands 2

Here is an older piece I did a short while ago from a photo taken during a visit to Canyonlands National Park.

Coyote Buttes

Here is a 9 x 12 watercolor original. This is a formation in the Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness in southern Utah, near the Arizona border.

Red Rocks

Here is a 9 x 12 pen and wash interpretation I made today.

Man in Suit

My experimenting into portraiture goes on...

So easy a caveman can do it!

Dead Horse Point

Here is a watercolor original that I did a few days ago. This was from a visit several years ago to "Island in the Sky," a section of Canyonlands National Park.

Canyonlands

This is of a scene of some mesas near Moab, Utah.

Thunder Mountain

Here is a 9 x 12 pen and wash original I finished today. The smaller rock in the foreground is called "The Sugar Loaf."

This mountain scene is what you see looking west from Sedona, Arizona.