Here's a photo of the finished work that I've decided to title: " Bennett Valley Pond " ~ 28" x 28" ~ oil on canvas ~ 2013 ~
This will be one of my entrees in the Marin County Fair Fine Art Competition that will be juried tomorrow. (June 22, 2013) at the Marin Center Fairgrounds in San Rafael, California.
It represents many hours of painting...
I decided to add a pair of Canada Geese to the painting of the small pond in the vineyards off Bennett Valley Road near Santa Rosa, California that I've been working on. I still have a ways to go, but I'm nearing the finish for sure. This is oil on canvas ~ 28" x 28" ~
Mahalo for stopping in,
Timo
Nearing the finish on this new one in progress..."Little Bennett Valley Pond" ~ oil on canvas ~ 28" x 28" ~ 2013 ~ Timo
Another few hours of painting on the little Bennett Valley pond brings it to this stage of completion.
Adding strokes of the essencial colors starts bringing this painting of a small vineyard pond into focus. Every touch of pigment brings it a little closer to reading as real in your mind's eye. Creating the illusion of looking into a scene rather than at it...
Mahalo for your interest. Timo
I started this fun new painting Wednesday while I was working at The ARThouse Gallery in Glen Ellen, California. It's a 28" square canvas that I built myself. Stay tuned for the process in progress...
Aloha, Timo
I signed the new seascape a few days ago..So it could be finished, but as long as it's here in the studio, it's still a work in progress. I like most of it..,And , I am working on a new one again...So maybe this is the final mode of this one that I'm calling "Beginnings"~ oil on canvas ~ 22" x 28" ~
Mahalo for stopping in...
Aloha Ohana, Timo
Every Wednesday from 10:am until 5:pm I'm hosting at the ARThouse Gallery in Glen Ellen, California. I paint on whatever is the current transportable project while I'm there. We just rotated spaces and I got this better location for my display. ARThouse Gallery is an artists collective owned and operated by the Interfaith Shelter Network that helps homeless people transition back into mainstream society with five shelters in Sonoma County.
Drop in some Wednesday and see some of my work first hand...And exceptional Art by 25 other local artists as well.
Mahalo for checking in...
Timo ~
This new seascape I'm working on is nearing it's final phase of painting and is approaching completion. I'm calling it "Beginnings"...for no particular reason. ~ oil on canvas ~ 22" x 28" ~
Mahalo for checking in, Ohana.
Timo ~~~*~~~
I worked on the new ocean painting again today...It makes me want to go out to the coast for a sunset soon... I love working with the color of the light that happens just before the Sun goes down. Golden orange yellow...Like a California Poppy.
Timo
I started a new painting yesterday while I was working at the ARThouse Gallery in Glen Ellen, California. It is a larger version of a little 8" x 10" that I did a number of years ago of a very tilted angle of view looking down a grassy bluff above a rocky beach on our sonoma coast in the last golden orange light before sunset.
No name for it yet...It is on a 22" x 28" stretched canvas, but not one that I built myself.
The toning and underpainting that you see here was done in about 2 hours.
Pigments used so far are: Titanium White, Permanent Rose, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Sap Green, Alizerine Crimson and Ultramarine Blue.
Mahalo for stopping in!
Timo
~ Martin's Vineyard ~ oil on cavas ~ 30" x 40" ~ 2013 ~
In the final stages of completion, the oil painting that I'm calling "Martin's Vineyard" is starting to really come into focus. It will be a nice painting when it's done...And, that will be soon...'cause I'm stoked to do a new painting of the Ocean after this Vineyard / Landscape.
Stay tuned for more...Don't go back!...I'll be right away!
Mahalo for visiting my blog.
Aloha, Timo
Martin's vineyard on Sonoma Mountain Road here in Glen Ellen is fairly high up on the mountain, but there's still a bit to look up to from there. The Autumn colors in this backlit afternoon view combine with the cool shadows to give this painting it's full spectrum look. I'm getting looser with my application of pigments as the years roll by...I don't really want a photographic realism. Just a strong suggestion of the subject that occurs when I use the intense color of my memory combined with the reference that the camera gives me. Each new color that I introduce helps create that illusive suggestion.
The Van der Kamp vineyard view of Sonoma Mountain is back on the easle and I made some good progress on it yesterday. I decided to extend the nearer tree group to achieve a better compositional balance. I'm working lighter and brighter colors over the darker and cooler tones of shadow that I established earlier on in the painting process.
Bringing the illusion of Sunlight into a painting is simply a matter of keeping the reflective color in the shadows very cool and the lighted areas warm and bright.
I thought that I had better subdue the yellow a bit so I added some strokes of a redder hue to suggest vineyard in the forward area. Autumn colors in the local vineyards are really something to behold.
Softening the shadow colors with liighter shades of cools puts more detail into your imagination, but tends to push it all back away from the yellow underpainting that still dominates the lower third of the canvas...Really bringing that into the area just in front of the viewer. The darker shadow section on the left was roughed in with a mixture of Alizerine Crimson & Ultramarine Blue and it too stays well forward visually, of the other lighter and cooler hues.
A good friend of mine was looking at a finished painting of mine that had taken me many hours to complete, and asked me,"How did you do that?" I took a brief moment to contemplate what he was really wanting to know and realized that it was beyond his experience and couldn't quite be explained in a single sentence or even a paragraph...And then I was inspired to sum it up with the phrase; " One stroke at a time."...Which is why many painters of landscapes shy away from larger size supports and are content to work on small or medium size canvases. I think ...Larger canvas...Larger brushes...More pigment...More fun! Takes longer....More process to enjoy!
Aloha Ohana,
Timo
Continuing to work the upper portions of the compsition with the gradually distancing cool colors of shadow seen through thicker and thicker atmosphere as it recedes further away.
Continuing to paint a somewhat cooler shadow color across the treeline from left to right...Still working with a large (#12) longhandled Flat Hogbristle brush. The scene is backlit by the late afternoon Sunlight...So the colors are dramatic in the contrasts between the bright warms and the cooler darks.
I'm using a fairly large (#14) long handled natural hog bristle flat brush. to work the pigment/medium onto the canvas...A lot of different sorts of movements and stroke directions to keep it interesting and the results feeling natural. Still underpainting a bit but starting to layer some shadow colors over my bright underpainting.
Laying in my bright yellows over the stark white gessoed surface of the canvas really helps keep them as vibrant as they need to be in the final aspect of the painting. Even though there won't be nearly that much showing by then.
I started a new painting night before last on a commercially built 30" x 40" canvas that was part of a group of supports traded to me for a resoration job that I'm doing for a friend.
This is the result of the first session of underpainting. What follows will be modified by these first colors that go on the canvas.
The portrait of the Indonesien Cockfighter is finally done and signed.
Title: " He Pu ali ka Moa " (The Chicken is a Warrior)
oil on canvas ~ 20" x 12" ~ 2013
By Timothy David Dixon
This painting of the cockfighter is very close to being done. Perhaps another hour or two and I can sign it.
A bit more paint has worked it's way onto the canvas of the Indonesian cockfighter commission that I'm doing for my friend Martin. I've had a lot going on through the "Holidaze" this season...So I'm just a little behind schedule for having this one completed, but it won't take much longer to finish it when I can focus on it once again.
I think it's going to be a great piece of art when it's finished.
Mahalo for visiting my blog!
Timo
