PROCESS

OIL PAINTING PROCESS

Here is the underpainting of, Florida, on canvas, 48" x 48".

The subject is one of the hotels representing the client. In this case more of a overdeveloped underpainting, compared to most underpaintings without detail, and made with only one color. Though I prefer not always approaching each painting with the same method.

I don't often but sometimes will add detail to the underpainting to explore seeing where the palette might go and in respect to the subject matter. Especially when I see the progress succeeding.

Here after I finished rendering of the subject matter using basic tones, I then went further tweaking the cool colors, curious to see how the different blues would turn out. In this attempt although did work with blues dominating the palette, I felt the wider range I had in mind would bring more energy, and also representing heat, instead of a cooler and more calm effect.

Then added warm colors next on the left, but still kept the blues that I liked, as I developed a gradient of color yellow to blue horizontally. Also introducing spot colors of purple and pink.

At this point my color scheme was decided but I wanted to triple check, so I took a minute to change colors of the image digitally. In this specific painting it was important to optimize the colors true to the representation in my mind of Florida that I was striving to achieve so I took this extra step. Here are just a few examples,

The palette on the left is close to how it looked when I photographed it, and the one I decided to keep after all.

I typically rotate the canvas not only because it's easier to approach the work certain angles, but also for different perspective. In this case I ended up liking the version of the composition best upside down.

So I then continued spending several weeks working on the painting, usually in sections, surfacing the grid of the composition as I painted, stepping back as needed to monitor continuity.

Here is the painting finished.

UNFOLDING COLOR

This is a group of paintings created to further study and explore interaction of color; a spontaneous process without deliberation seeing colors in a different way, disregarding previous context.
Interactions of color were integrated also with various textures to further explore the impact and subtleties of color.

PACIFIC
oil on canvas
5" x 5"

100 MILES HIGH
oil on canvas
5" x 9"

ALONG THE WAY
oil on canvas
10" x 10"

WAKING UP
oIl on canvas
9" x 4"

CONTINUOUS TRANSISITION
oIl on canvas
14" x 14"

DISTRACTION
oil on canvas
7" x 5"

UNFOLDING COLOR ( configuration 1 )
oil on canvas
101" x 20"