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Monthly Archives: June 2006

still painting the giant commission

Saturday, June 17, 2006

I continue to build depth and blend and soften with thin washes. This photo shows the eight foot panels on the ground and the four foot panels on the wall with the squares directly on top of them. It is a bit distorted, but I can only lay out a few at a time and [...]

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brown and blue

Friday, June 9, 2006

Still working on the commission for the atrium of an office building. It is about halfway done in these photos. I took these shots with a flash and the colors are a bit off. It is less red and more brown than it appears. It’s just a quick shot of it as it develops. [...]

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6 panels of a fifteen panel painting half done

Sunday, June 4, 2006

I drew some lines for reference on the canvas and sketched in the dominant forms on each of the 15 canvasses using a thin mixture of cadmium red light and medium and referring to my gridded sketch for placement. These banch-y areas will ultimately be the chocolate brown my client wants to see in this [...]

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Canvas up, hands down

Friday, June 2, 2006

The rolls of canvas finally arrived and I had to stretch it. Each roll was 63″ wide and 9 yards long. I lay the canvas on the floor, reminded myself to measure twice, cut once, and cut the panels. I used a staple gun to attach them to the canvas. After three of [...]

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