Oil Painting- seeing color as value

This post is for the hard core artists who might stumble across my blog. As you've seen I don't regularly post because....I don't have a good reason why not. I just don't. BUT, here is a link to YT videos that I did and discusses the concept of color and value. There are two parts. If you punish yourself and make it through part 1, please grab another cup of your favorite beverage and watch part 2.

PART 1

PART 2

Wave Painting

I recently finished my "first" wave painting. I took reference photos from a vacation to Barbados and used one of them for this work. The challenge was to get realistic looking foam getting sucked back from the shoreline to this incoming breaker. Take a look at this video for start to finish how it was created.
Wave painting with oils

Winter plein air. Closing out my time in Wisconsin

Just passing through this last winter in Wisconsin. It's off to Florida for the rest of my life with palm trees, alligators and lots of oceans to paint. But why not bang out a few quickies outside in the elements of winter.

 Set up at this creek

 9x12 oil on panel

 Set up next to a small lake 

about to freeze over

 9x12 oil on panel. Man it was cold!

Workshop with Mark Boedges

Since I'm a fan of Richard Schmid I was lucky enough to travel to Burlington VT and participate with 9 other artists at the June workshop with Mark Boedges. Mark has painted with Richard and shared many of his techniques that mimic those of Schmid.

My connector flight got canceled so I missed morning #1 but caught up with everybody in time to paint that afternoon. Here are a bunch of shots as Mark worked his magic at Shelburne Farms right outside Burlington.

On Day 3 we went back to Shelburne and Mark took on the Coach House close to Lake Champlaign. Here was that effort.