Dan McCaw workshop

These are three paintings that I did at a Dan McCaw workshop, that I was extremely lucky to attend. He painted on the first two, quite a bit and I did the last alone. He is a very inspiring teacher and I hope I get the chance to study with him again. He says the best paintings are the ones you learn from, I learned a lot on these!

Untiltled Beach Walk

Two beach paintings, the mother and child not , the other one is better. I have been working on lights and darks and divisions between them. If a painting is not working, the first thing to look at is lights, darks and contrast.

4 Black and Whites

Two Figures in Black and White

These are a couple of black and white studies that I did of my grandchildren. I am really working on getting stronger compositions through value and gesture and I enjoyed the simplicity of these.

As of now I believe that I have 18 paintings so far this year, which means that I am behind. I really should have 25 to be on track to reach my goal so I will have to step it up if I am going to make it to 50 this year.

Still Life

Just a little still life, not too exciting. I did it with a brush instead of a palette knife so that was challenging for me.

Landscapes

This is another purple and yellow sunset painting. Turns out that I like telephone poles, must be the repetition thing.

My attempt at painting clouds. I watched Robert paint clouds after I painted this, so I should try again.

Restaurant Workers

I did this painting a couple of months ago and just never photographed it. This will be my 4th restaurant worker painting. I really enjoy the movement/gestures and concentration of the subjects. My daughter got a brochure from a culinary college and it had some great photos that I changed for my own purposes.

This one is the best of the two, I think. I really like the white of their uniforms against the industrial backdrop with the repetition of the plates, pans, etc.