Joseph D. Grant park Hike and Sketch

The paintsites group met at this wonderful park for another hike and sketch this week.  This was my last hike and sketch before my move, and it may be a while before I see some of my painting friends again so it was bitter sweet.  The hike and sketch events have always been fun though and this was no exception. There was an abundance of wildflowers, including poppies, miniature lupin and the largest swaths of Purple Vetch I have ever seen.

This was a view of the cookhouse.

This was a view of the cookhouse.

Creating an abstract painting

I seldom paint abstractly, which is a shame because I do like abstracts and I love painting in a purely intuitive way which lends itself to creating abstracts.  Anyway, here is a recent abstract painting.  Acrylic on illustration board. I started out with a few blobs of acrylic paint and a vague idea that I was going to paint mineral accretions based on a photo I took in New Zealand.  The painting went in a different way eventually.  See what your imagination makes of it!

This is the initial scraping of acrylic paint with a few additions of color glazes.

This is the initial scraping of acrylic paint with a few additions of color glazes.


This is the next phase with some gesso glazes

This is the next phase with some gesso glazes

Here I added more gesso glazes and some texture and scribbles

Here I added more gesso glazes and some texture and scribbles

The final piece

The final piece