Making Progress

Progress on the double portrait of my friend Martin's parents that I'm doing from an old B&W photobooth print that he had.

Colorizing a black & white

I made some more progress on this double portrait of a good friend's parents that I'm doing from an old photograph that measures about 1 1/2" x 1". Taken in the forties in one of those little booths that you sit down in and pay a quarter to get 4 or 5 pictures taken and processed in about 3 minutes. I scanned it and blew it up to 8 x 10 so I had some chance of seeing the details. It is a black & white print so I'm just making up the color. Fun project - 14" x 18" oil on canvas.

Abalone Shell #9

I almost finished the big Abalone shell painting I started in July this afternoon. The shell is done, but I want to do a little bit more to the background. This oil painting measures 30" x 40" on stretched canvas. Mahalo for checking in.
Aloha, Timo

Posthumous Portrait

I just started a double portrait of a good friend's parents using an old wallet photo from the forties that I scanned and enlarged to 8x10 so I could see it better.

For the toning, I began by brushing a thin coat of English Red Light on the gessoed canvas and then wiping it off with a rag. Then I sketched in the forms using, Raw umber, Burnt Sienna and Raw Sienna. then I added Cadmium Red Light, Naples Yellow, Naples Yellow Light, Naples yellow Warm, Dioxazine Purple and Titanium white to my palette and kept at it for a couple hours. What you see is where I stopped painting last night.

"Enterprise Vines"

I worked on this little (12" x 16")painting again today..it's almost finished..I signed it and took this photo of it..then decided to update the blog. Then after I started I realized ,looking at the picture, that there was a bit more to do. Put some shine on the grapeleaves. The difference will be subtle, but you'll notice the difference. So more on this one later.

Enterprise Vineyard

I made some progress on this little vineyard painting today, but didn't have time to finish it.

Enterprise Road Vineyard

I began a new oil painting of a vineyard up on Enterprise Road yesterday. The view is toward Mount Veeder in the Mayacamas Mountains that separate Napa Valley from Sonoma Valley.
It's a small size canvas : 12" x 16". I'll try to finish it today and show another update later.