Painting Indoors

More Tools

I don't think I have seen many paintings of tools but I'm finding them interesting items to paint.

 Three little oil cans

Brass, Copper and Blue paint

Pipe wrench with reflections.

Still Winter

Still Life

I'd rather be out plein air painting but winter is just hanging on so in addition to practicing drawing more, I decided to do some small still life paintings 6x6" size.  In addition to the usual food subject matter, I picked out some tools from our large collection. Some are antique, some just old.

A New Year

A Wintery Start

The weather has been extremely cold (An Arctic Vortex) that has given me the opportunity to brush up on drawing out the window for my landscape subject matter.  The magical vision of 10" inches of snow and a week later the melting values of cloudy days and melting leftover snow.  

A bit warmer day enabled me to get out and paint a quick study of an amazingly changing sky!

                                                                 Outside my window

                                                    Outside Kirkwood Community Center

From under the shelter at Cliff Cave Park