Learning to paint...

As odd as it sounds, coming from one who has been painting in pastels since the early 1980s, I feel like I'm learning to paint! Gouache is challenging, but as I've practiced I've seen my ability to make it behave improving.

One key, noted elsewhere in this blog, is to let it do what it does well and marshal its habits in such a way as to make a better painting using those inclinations. It's a bit like raising kids: find out what they're made to do and insist they do it. Thus grows competence, at least, if not comprehension and enthusiasm.

So my 'children', perhaps more accurately my 'childlike' gouache paintings, are growing a bit, both in size and competence, I think. Below are a few more experiments.

Niagara River, gouache on Somerset Black Velvet, 4" x 5", $25.00 USD

(I know the Niagara is vast--this was just a small section to

one side of Goat Island, standing on a bridge.)

Spring Runoff, gouache on Somerset Black Velvet, 4" x 8", $25.00 USD

October, gouache on Somerset Black Velvet, 2 1/2" x 5" $25.00 USD


Poppies, 100 lb. drawing paper, 5" x 2 1/2" $25.00 USD



Each will be mounted on paper, backed by board and mailed to you.
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