Progress of "Inclined to Agree"

I didn't have much time this evening, but I wanted to get a bit of glaze on it so that it would set by tomorrow. I scumbled up a bit in the dark areas and glazed the entire lower half back down with Alizarin Crimson mixed with some Cadmium Red Medium to give it more intensity of color. I love how the red-tinted glaze got caught in all the little crevasses. Now it’s looking truer to my vision. Circles are starting to be added into the upper left quadrant. These will probably almost disappear in the end, ultimately they'll likely just be "ghosts" of circles. And the blue area was a little too intense, so I cut that back with a little white mixed with muted turquoise. The change in that area is subtle, but it is looking much better to me. Sometimes the subtlest shift of hue and value is all that it takes to make me more comfortable with a painting’s progress.

A New Painting (in progress)

I just started this commissioned piece for Shelley and thought I’d post some progress images. I started off with a layout based on a couple of older paintings that Shelley liked.


After preparing the board with texture paste and painting it black, I started by blocking in the general colors.


Then I masked the areas that were going to get stripes. I used black fluid acrylic combined with heavy gel and knifed in the thin lines. I used a brush for the wider stripes.


Masks removed, revealing the stripes.


Then I continued glazing to get the colors a little closer. Here’s where it stands right now. More to come…