sunset time

this was the finished piece done from the sketch a few posts down. I did something a little different than what I normally do with pastels. I put a coat of spar varnish on, then made some oil glazes and some china marker.

clouds and flowers

Some pastel drawings I've done in the past few weeks

This was a still life that started out as a silhouette but then I started adding color, and detail, and it became a pretty nice flower drawing. I think I might do more flowers like this.

This was done over spring break, I was going to get some food, and the sun beaming through the clouds looked too cool to pass up. This was a 5 minute sketch but I think because of the short time, it captured a lot of energy.
This was done the other day, I was going to draw the bridge, but thought I might try to paint the sun being blocked by a passing cloud.

Till next time,

-Matt

fresh plein air

some new ones from this past weekend. had a lot of fun with all these, i started using a brush again and completly changed my palette =D !

i did two sunset ish paintings at these fun little trails i found at lido beach, they both started fun, then ended more fun as i couldnt see what colors i was mixing up because it was too dark, and my fingers were freezing.


teal and i go fishing here and i always thought the boat's masts in front of the backlit trees look pretty cool, so i painted them.
this one was really fun, i was scared to drive that morning as i couldnt see 10 feet in front of me. but when i got to the site, it was worth it, it stayed pretty foggy throughout the whole painting so that was good.
this one was a place i found by mistake. i was looking to get into this park with a lake, but the gate was closed because i was there too early, so i turned around and found a dirt road that took me to this scene. i started painting it, and then this huge fun cloud came storming over the trees, and i painted it quickly as it was only there for 20 to 30 seconds.