Calling it Done..."Jeremy's Eight"...

Now the wait to fully dry, then varnish...and believe this one is going to look very nice on the wall!  

the second image shows the top wrap painting, as are the sides.  Clicking on images brings up larger view...

 

Jeremy's Buck...most almost done!

20"x 30" on stretched linen...gallery wrap...completed the camo jacket, antlers, and painted the modeled rendering of a monochromatic set of hands.  Last step will be to repaint hands with more color for good solid flesh tones...also included, a side view...which reveals that the sides of the gallery wrap linen support are also painted, which will give the painting more presence seen in a room's open space.  Oh, and should remind, clicking on the images brings up a larger view!

Progress...near finished, Jeremy's Eight Pointer

Well....been a bit since posting the start of Jeremy's painting, but you can see how it has dramatically changed working this from initial blocking in to now.  I have work on the hands, antlers, and jacket's camo...and then will essentially be done...(clicking on image brings up larger view...)

Couple New Projects...

Finished up an online five week webinar for Go to Meeting on painting, and first thing on the agenda was to finish a 10"x 8" gouache of a friend in Alaska...with myself and another friend fishing on the Deshka River for salmon..land of the "Midnight Sun!"

Gouache is an opaque watercolor medium, which is much fun to play around with.  If you've never played with it, its a bit like liquid pastel (as I would describe it).

and...just started this one of my son Jeremy's nice eight pointer harvested with bow this season...oil on linen, 20"x 30" ....and will post the finished result.

Alaskan Brown w/guide 14"x 18" oil painting

Finished...Manitoba Grizzly 20"x 24" oil painting

Well...believe I've done justice and am satisfied,
this beautiful Manitoba grizzly and the proud hunter...




















Closeup of the hunter...




















Closeup of the bear's head-
















Here you get a closeup view of brushwork and color in the
manner I have applied broken color here. Manipulating
the viewer's eye to mix color in their eye by not completely
mixing the color on my palette before applying. This gives
a truer sense of the light of nature in my opinion, and the
illusion of the rich color in the fur-




















As always...clicking on images bring up larger view...

Manitoba Grizzly- 20"x 24" oil

This is my third session working on this one, not
quite finished...but having fun. Very appreciative
getting the reference photo recently at the Deer
Classic held in Green Bay two weekends ago...

























As always, click on the image and see a much larger view!