Painting

I've been painting more lately. I've been studying painters and pushing myself to

learn to paint looser and not get wrapped up in insignificant details. The more I paint, the more I love painting. I've started to see that painting is such a great outlet for your own personal creativity. There are so many ways to mix paint, choose colors, and apply the brushstrokes that everyone paints differently. Finding exactly how I paint is shaping up to be quite an enjoyable journey.

The shadow side of this tree looks much better than the light side I think.

These are paintings from the figure drawing marathon that I just finished. The fist two are hour long studies and the second one was about three hours. I had never painted a figure before, and I really enjoyed it.

This is a painting of Gregory Manchess, one of the painters I've been studying lately. His loose brushwork and talent for describing form are things I strive for in my own paintings.