It’s dawned on me that I’m painting a series on Dimond Park, just because I spend so much time there with Shadow. Here are some painting starts, where I begin translating the sketches into paintings by blocking in the big shapes.
Painting Starts
Starts
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Babysitters
On weekdays at the park you can usually see nannies with toddlers and baby carriages, in shady spots where they’ve spread out a blanket to picnic for a few hours.
Babysitters
Babysitters onsite sketch
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A Rainbow in the Shade
Letting go of copying scenes so literally.
A Rainbow in the Shade
Into Color
Lattice roof makes shade over columns of Scout Hut storage building in the park. It faces the creek and benches made of tree trunks, often a staging area for volunteer work crews and solo joggers.
Scout Hut shade
Shade, onsite sketch
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Back to Basics
Going back to basics, little compositions. It’s like a game to look for big shapes.
Working with water-soluble pencil in black. I didn’t used to like black and white pictures, but now it clears my head.
Truck behind trees:
Would I recognize this place
Play Structure
from this:
Not Quite 100 People
Last week was an online challenge to sketch 100 people in one week. I didn’t get anywhere near that number. Maybe around 50.
Stairway in Shadow
Cold day in the park. Most of this stairway was in shade, but a strip of light through the trees caught one edge.
Stairway in shadow
Gap
Most of the wood has been removed from the old oak that fell after last year’s rains. A few logs remain, and the odd shape of the tree that grew next to the big oak, now no longer overshadowed by it.
gap
Midas
Study for a painting titled “Midas”, but honestly I don’t know if I’ll ever finish it. Casein.
study for Midas
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