Back to working with basic values and lines, I recently created this small drawing that I will put in my “finished works” gallery. For this piece, I went back to just the pencil and lines creating the values I needed. Keeping it small, (roughly 8″x10″), it didn’t take the many hours that some of my … Read more
“Playing around with smaller canvases lately – it feels like a shortcut to more projects and quicker learning. Swapped out my daily sketches for a week to dive into this 8.5″x11” oil painting, a solid 6-8 hours of work. It’s one of those ‘not completely happy, but done’ situations. Smooth Bristol Board, limited palette with … Read more
For about 30 days, mostly in September, I decided to challenge myself to do an oil painting a day. These were very small sketches that I tried to keep loose and with limited pallets. I am not sure I learned anything but I feel like when I give myself a goal or challenge like this … Read more
This one certainly has me thinking about a larger piece of work using this theme. We will see… https://www.johnhuismanart.com/
Another small oil portrait sketch in the sketchbook for practice with colors and brushes, values etc. https://www.johnhuismanart.com/
Another quick tiny painting with oil paints suing the Zorn Pallet, (Black, yellow ochre, red and white). This measures about 3″ x 4″ and took about 50 minutes. https://www.johnhuismanart.com/
Just a very quick gesture sketch using oil paints on old scraps of Bristol board. https://www.johnhuismanart.com/
This is the same face as the last blog post only using a pallet of colors and a brush. I avoided using black on this one just relying on the darkest value I could muster up with the yellow, rad and turquoise that I have on the pallet. https://www.johnhuismanart.com/
