Daily Painting

From the archives figure on the beach

I pulled this file out to share with my oil painting students for sketching figures on the spot, to demonstrate finding the simple shapes, colors and lights and darks on the form while painting en plein air. I posted some figure sketching notes on working at the shore here.

Lakeshore

 

From yesterday's plein air painting class at Notte Park in North Providence. 

Rocky cove

9"x12", oil on canvas. Demo from ocean painting class, rocky cove at Beavertail. (Class schedule here.)

at the beach

The boys took turns burying each other in the sand. 5"x7", oil on panel.

East Beach

6"x6", oil on canvas.  Below is the first pass, which I scraped out and worked into.

on the beach

Building sandcastles on the beach. 10"x8", oil on canvas.
(there is a watercolor of this figure here.)

beach sketch

Figures on the beach, 9"x12" oil on panel (blue ground).

Running on the beach

Another study of children at play. Oil on canvas, 10"x30".

Seascape with grassy cliffs

A view from Block Island on the Mohegan bluffs staircase. 24"x12".

Brenton Point

12"x9", oil on clayboard. From Brenton Point today in Newport, Rhode Island.