back from Florida-back to work! We have a show in August "cats and dogs" at art works and it is to raise money for the ASPCA-all work must have dogs (or cats) - so with that in mind i started work on two pictures of Spike-one with Sam and one close up-still in progress but thought I would post my progress. Also started another daffodil for my series on ampersand boards-so, busy, busy!

Happy Birthday!

Well I have been busy working on this painting since last week-still not totally finished-but all the components are there-just need to work on details-I think it is the beginning of a series!-Happy birthday, bro- you will have to come up to VA to get it, however-I will frame it for you in the meantime! see you soon-

Ah-what to do next! I want to do a picture for the august dog/cat show at art works - I think I may do a pic of Sam holding Spike at the river-it has water with nice reflections in the background-so, started to do some sketches for that -

also, had a 5x7 sample of gatorboard floating around, so I am doing a small picture to try it out-not used to working so small!

I think it is done-signed it anyway-maybe a few little things but for the most part I am happy at the place it is!

Today I worked my way down to the foreground of the painting-Using primarily Rembrants and a few softer pastels from dark unison set, mount vision and senneliers. I have a few things to still resolve but I am happy with the result so far. I found the sketch I made at the time and it was from Boscebel looking out over the Hudson towards West Point-Ann did remember, too.! The two last images are closeups of the left and center of the work. Hope to finish tomorrow!

Underpainted the landscape I sketched out yesterday using nupastel and turpenoid using complimentary colors. This is Wallis sanded paper-the image is about 20 x 36 . Using a limited palate of pinks, blues, violets, worked in sky and distance mountains, Started with lightest value colors and progressed up the scale in more proximal mountain ranges adding greens, golds, reds to detail. Working top to bottom which is unusual for me but in this image works best as I can use the same basic value pastels in each level as I move down the work. Putting in the water helped me to keep perspective. Stopped at this point - Tomorrow the foreground with the deepest colors for the trees and shrubbery -I took this photo on a trip in the summer to NY state-we traveled along the hudson-this was the view from a house on the river-I think west point was in the mountain across the way-I'll have to ask ann- Come to think of it i may have done a sketch at the time I should find!

This is an image from earlier this summer on canson black 18 x 25


Finished the image below today - tried to do a looser more abstract version of lotus leaves and flowers compared to the work I put in yesterdays blog-I like the effect-I am trying to move away from the need to copy an image faithfully-and use values, color, to get an image that is equally if not more satisfying. this is on pastel board -not sure of the size but about 17 x 24. Started a landscape that I plan to work in a more monocromatic limited palette-Did a small study on wallis and I have drawn out the image on the larger page! Ready to go tomorrow with the underpainting and then pastel.


I also have several other works I have completed so far this summer:

I have been experimenting with underpainting-this is the first layer of nupastel which i fixed and then worked with the softer pastels in the final version-it gives you a chance to think about color and value and then it is easy to follow with the true colors. :

RRoseman,artist, hand therapist, occupational therapist

I hope to use this space to display my work in progress-any and all feedback, suggestions welcome! I miss not being in a class, but I am working in a studio (not my guestroom) and it gets lonely in there sometimes! I will be back to classes in the fall, but my goal for the summer is to PAINT! I have been taking classes my whole life and spent most of the last 25 years doing watercolors-I took a pastel class a few years ago and had that ahah moment-this is what I love to do-immediate direct painting with color-I love the medium and can't wait to go to my studio (when I am not doing the PRN OT thing) and try new things. So here goes-I have done a several paintings the past few weeks on Canson Black, wallis sanded, colourfix, and pastelboards- I will post my recent work next time.