Study, Mineral Bluff, 118

This is the color study I did for Jeff's painting. I used a limited palette for the study: cad red med, cad yellow pale and ultramarine. For the larger piece I added flesh tint by Georgian and Sap Green... in all large pieces I also use my leftover paint which I tube and use as my mud, I picked this little tidbit up from Kevin MacPhearson.

Mineral Pluff, 116 sold

I did this piece for my good friend Jeff to mark his half century mark. He chose the subject matter which happened to be this train station in the little village where he and his wife, Donna, just bought a mountain house near Blue Ridge, Georgia. This piece went off without too much fuss. I usually curse a lot and throw a few tantrums while working on pieces this large, but not this one, although it was exhausting. The finished product was much different than I had in my minds eye. I didn't do my knife technique on this one for a few different reasons, one, the brush work actually looked too good to destroy and the paint wasn't thick enough to manipulate. Either way, I am very pleased with this and I hope Jeff and Donna will love it as much as I do and hang it with pride in their new home away from home. Happy 50th, Me Jeff...