Art and Architecture

Life As We Know It

Old Adobe House, 8 x 10 oil on board

All of us are familiar with architecture, we see a lot of buildings every day of our lives.  Yet, many of us fear adding these same images to our paintings.  Why?  Because if you are wrong, everyone knows it.  This is the very reason why we need to embrace the architectural form and make it our friend.  The first two studies were done with my students.

Artists Mill, 6 x 12 oil on board

The next two studies were comopleted just for fun.  I expecially like the barn painting, don't you?

Uncle George Greenley's Barn, 11 x 14 oil on canvas

Twilight at Cloudcroft, 12 x 16 oil on canvas

A Little Bit of Color

Color Wheel Studies

One of the ways to begin to understand color is to create designs and even paintings which require you to manipulate color in very specific ways.  The next several paintings are designs based on the 12 colors of the color wheel using tints and tones with  monochromatic, analogous,  and complementary color schemes.

Color Wheel Design, Acrylic on Paper

FW Color Designs #1, Acrylic on Museum Board

FW Color Designs #2, Acrylic on Museum Board

The next two paintings are based on all 12 colors of the color wheel using tints and tones but in a regular painting format.

Geisha with Sun and Rain, 15 x 22 Watercolor on Paper

Piggy and Rhino Play Dress-up, 17 x 23 Acrylic on Paper

The next three works are based on analogus, complementary  and split complementary color schemes.

FW Blues 1212, 6 x 6 acrylic on wood

Sun Geisha #2010, Watercolor on paper

 Geisha of the Cool Afternoon, 15 x 22 Tempera on Paper

A Little Bit of Oil

Beginning Oil Painting Demonstrations

The following paintings were created as demonstrations for beginning painting students in oil.

FW Compliment O1208, Oil on 6 x 6 Gessoed Board

FW Compliment O1209, Oil on 6 x 6 Gessoed Board

FW Landscape O1210, Oil on 6 x 12 Gessoed Board

FW Pallet Knife Landscape O1211,Oil on 6 x 12 Gessoed Board 

Acrylic is Golden

Examples and Demonstrations in Acrylic

This year my students are working by quantity, a painting a class period.  There are four exceptions, where they have four large works to break up the schedule.  These first paintings were  demonstrationsfrom the first week of class.

FW Abstract Series 1201, 6 x 6 acrylic on wood

FW Abstract  Tree Series 1202,  6 x 12 acrylic on wood 

The next group of painting demonstrations were created for painting two students for the first month of the semester.

FW Abstract  Tree Series 1203,  6 x 18 acrylic on canvas

FW Abstract  Tree Series 1203,  6 x 18 acrylic on canvas

FW Faux Batik Series 1204, Acrylic on rice paper

FW Faux Batik Series 1205, Acrylic on watercolor paper

FW Faux Batik Series 1206, Acrylic on watercolor paper

FW Faux Batic Series 1207, Acrylic on watercolor paper



 

Tonal Value

Many Shades of Gray

Gray Geisha #1, 15 x 22 Tempera on Watercolor Paper

Gray Geisha #3, 15 x 22 Tempera on Watercolor Paper

Gray Geish #2, 15 x 22 Monotype on Watercolor Paper

Plum Lucky, 6 x 6 Acrylic on Board