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The Color of Music (16 x 20 watercolor on paper) reserved
This is a larger and more colorful version of “Brass, Winds, and Shadows.” I liked the first version, but I like this one better. Besides enlarging the painting and bumping up the color, I expanded the field of view to include more of the flute. I also made the shadows more transparent. I think all of the changes are improvements.
Prints available through my shop at Fine Art America.
Saxy Trio (13 x 22 watercolor on paper) $375
Three saxophones I captured at my Weathers Music photo-shoot. I liked this particular arrangement because they look so social, like they are singing together. I tried to emphasize that cozy feeling in the painting.
The composition is a new one for me. I’ve been told that just about any letter makes a good composition. “S” is very commonly used in landscapes with roads or rivers snaking in the the interior. “O” is often used to frame landscapes. “X” pops up all over particularly in figurative work. I’ve seen trees form “W,” but I”ve never done it. This is the first “W” I’ve ever done and it’s so obviously a “W” that it makes me smile.
Prints available through my website at Fine Art America. See more saxophone artwork here: saxophone art
Purple Sax (8 x 10 watercolor on clayboard) $100.00
Painted in Florida, from a moody shadow shot. Once more I’m having fun with the keys.
Like the other Florida paintings, this one is a little smaller, only 8 x 10. It is painted on aquabord and finished with a clear coat of acrylic, and mounted on a black cradle frame. Ready to hang. Original available in November at Art in the Valley, Corvallis Oregon. Or purchase a print through my Shop at Fine Art America.
Silver and Glass Music (11 x 14 watercolor on claybord) $300
I painted this in my usual palette of cobalt blue, phthalo blue, ceruleun blue, hasna yellow, new gamgee, burnt siena and dioxian purple plus a new addition, phtalo green. Like phthalo blue, phthalo green is extremely staining and very transparent. Even on clayboard and canvas it’s hard to lift. Typically, I mix my greens rather than pour them out of the tube, but there’s something metalic about phtalo green that can’t be mixed and it’s the perfect color for depression glass.
When I finish this one, my mother-in-law commented that she admired anyone who could paint glass. I will tell you the secret about painting and drawing glass. There’s nothing any difficult about glass than any other subject. The only trouble is psychological. If you just paint the shapes you see, no matter how abstract, when you step back, it will look like glass. It’s only when you worry about making it look like glass that it doesn’t. The same thing is true of metal.
Painted on aquabord and finished with a clear coat of acrylic, and mounted on a black cradle frame.
Or purchase a print through my Shop at Fine Art America.
I'm Still Painting on the Keys (8 x 10 watercolor on clayboard) $100.00
While painting this instrument series, I have been fascinated by the keys. So this time that’s just about all I painted. I like it so well, that I’ll probably do a few more, just keys paintings.
Another painting on clay board, this painting is finished with a clear coat of acrylic, and mounted on a black wooden cradle.
Available through my Etsy Shop. Or purchase a print through my Shop at Fine Art America. See more flute artwork here: flute art.
Duet for a Pear (watercolor on clay board 8 x 10) $100.00
The is another painting from my photo session at Weathers Music, but I painted it on the patio of a beach house just outside Sarasota on the Gulf of Mexico. Painting under an umbrella with the ocean just yards away–what could be finer? We spent the last week there getting our fill of salt and sun. After the long wet cold spring here in Oregon the sun sure felt fine. But my is it hot and humid there. I spent the afternoons painting in the cool. I have five new paintings to post over the next few days.
This is the first one I did. I really like the greeny black of the clarinet and piccolo in contrast to the greeny yellow of the pear. The pear and clarinet bell shapes echo each other nicely too.
Another painting on clay board, the painting is finished with a clear coat of acrylic and mounted on a black wooden cradle. Original available through Art in the Valley, Corvallis Oregon. Or purchase a print through my Shop at Fine Art America.
