Author: RAVJr

Painting with Stan Miller – 2018

I had a great few days last year with Stan Miller in one of his workshops.  He is an inspiring water color painter and great teacher.

Here is a series of my steps painting a composition of his — like all great teachers, he sticks to the fundamentals and is quite strict about not straying along the way, which ends up working very well.

Painting with Stan Miller - Church on the Plains.vinchesi

Here is a closeup of the church at an earlier step:

Church in progress

Quick sketch – Horse

I was imagining a home-remodel and a painting above a sofa on a new wall, and images of horses popped into my mind, though I have never incorporated them into my artwork.  I found some great images online, here is a quick sketch to get myself familiar with it.

Drawing the same thing many times helps with getting the right fidelity and also makes one notice tiny aspects of the lines and darks / lights, and as I’ve said before, I refuse to trace an image for a drawing (that becomes a painting).

Horse study.vinchesi.1

Rainbows on Wood Pile

I was about to transfer some fire wood from one location to another one closer to the wood burning stove (one of my favorite inventions ever) and was blown away by the site of various splashes of rainbow-color on several pieces of wood.

Rainbows on wood

How beautiful is this?

Which one is your favorite?

When painting a portrait, I refuse to use tracing paper or a projector or other methods that cheat on efforts to draw free-hand. It just seems wrong to me, but maybe that’s just a hangup.

I thought I’d juxtapose several of my recent efforts on the Hendrix series and look at some crazy distortions that have occurred at the level of drawing (before any paint hits the page).

I can’t decide yet which of these works in progress is going to become my favorite, would love to hear what you think.

3 Jimis.Vinchesi