Bit more work...and now ready for the Expo...

This is about as far as I want to start and take this one.  Far enough to show my intent to take this piece....but yet enough work to keep me busy for the three day Expo event.


I know I'll get stopped continuously talking and meeting sportsmen and women...which is all fun, but will be trying to paint at the show.  Click on image to bring up larger view..


see ya at the Expo....March 30th thru April 1st...Alliance building, Madison Wisconsin..

Mountain Lion... 30"x 20"

Starting a new one...on Senso linen, stretched on thick frames as a gallery wrap.  A nice nice mountainlion taken by my brother in law, Jeff Hendzel out west recently...and will be working on this one at the Whitetail Deer & Turkey Expo behind my booth last weekend of March, in Madison...at the Alliance Building.  Hope to see some of you there...

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this shows the first blocking in stages...and the painting progressed quickly from here...

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