Even when I’m not actively working on a painting, I sometimes doodle, sketch, or just play around with my paints. More often than not it doesn’t develop any further. Other times the initial sketch will become the idea for a painting, finished drawing, or linocut. Here are a few examples.
Even when I’m not actively working on a painting, I sometimes doodle, sketch, or just play around with my paints. More often than not it doesn’t develop any further. Other times the initial sketch will become the idea for a painting, finished drawing, or linocut. Here are a few examples.
This first sketch I call “Blue Girl” is a quick Color pencil sketch i did just to try out some new colored pencils.
This next one is a quick pencil sketch I did to pass the time when I was waiting on something. It is a cup my wife made me in a pottery class she took long ago.
This is a A quick pencil sketch of a Greek Fisherman . It was an idea for a painting I never did.
The next pencil sketchis also a quick study for a painting that was not done.
This colored pencil sketch is a study of textures and found objects.
I did this next sketch way back in 1975 just for the fun of it. Someone saw me doing it and liked it so much that I gave it to them the second it was finished. I never saw it again.
The next sketch is a study for what later became the oil painting “Osprey Breakfast”. I gave the painting away and it has since been lost.
The sketch below is ans unfinished sketch of the Peanut Island Coast Guard station I did in the early 1990′ while I was in the Navy Reserve. I was on the Island one day and did this at lunch, but never had time to finish it.
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Peanut Island Coast Guard Station |
The watercolor sketch below is a study of a large pine tree in a park where I used to sometimes eat lunch. I did it to try out some new water color paints.
The charcoal sketch below was a quick study of a dead pine tree in a nature preserve.
The following pencil sketch is of a retired Teddy bear that was sitting in our living room one night.
The acrylic koi and Kanji on the feeders below inspired me to later do some colored marker pieces of koi and ultimately an acrylic painting called “Wabi Koi” which now belongs to my oldest son.