Saint George Seascape Painting Andrew Daniel

I got to spend a lovely morning on the coast of California, just North of Crescent City this summer. I was up there camping with the family on the Trinity River and it was possible for me to slip away and take in the cliffs at Saint George. I was really enjoying the yellow wheat color of the cliffs, so I decided to stop and stare into the distance for a few hours....

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Impressionst ARCATA BULB FARM Painting Andrew Daniel

I made this painting sitting in my car along the roadside next to the Sun Valley Floral Farm in Arcata, California. I often return to the larger Arcata Bottoms area to paint, because the landscape is wide and open and the color hues are so subtle. Ahh, I wish I had time today to get out there!

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Papaya and Lime by Andrew Daniel

I painted this piece at Frances Kuta's studio in Eureka, CA. She did a nice job of setting up the still life. I don't often see orange and green combined in plien air painting. It makes for a vibrant combination! There is something happening with the brushwork that inspires me to paint more still life pieces.

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"LOTUS FLOWER" by Andrew Daniel

This is a painting that was done at the Fieldbrook Winery in Fieldbrook, California. They have a lovely landscaped property there where I met with Michelle Murphy-Ferguson for an sunny afternoon this summer. If you would like to bid on this painting you can do so by Clicking Here.

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Painting Irises - My Second Video of painting.

This is my second video, I'm learning a lot, sorry for the lighting and focus problems..... Please let me know what you think! Any suggestions?

I'm trying to use a loose spontaneous brushstroke in this painting. I was watching a painting video by Richard Schmid and I noticed that he holds his brush in many different ways, to vary the mark.. I am also focusing Using strong contrasts in color and value to make the painting pop!

It's hard to paint irises without thinking of Van Gogh, I guess he has kinda branded the bread.

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This is my first attempt to make a video of me painting. It is a speed painting, so you can watch an hours worth of painting in 3 minutes. This was going to be an oil portrait study, painted plein air. Then I got a call from work that I had to go in and take care of some stuff. I want to get to the point where I do portraits regularly. Right now I paint one about once a week with a group at Frances Kuta's studio in Eureka, CA.

Eastern Bluebird Watercolor

I painted this from a photo by the photography team of Maslowski Wildlife Productions.

I found the picture in a calendar for the Children's Cancer Society I had kicking around. It was a gift for my wife's mother Pam. I was quite lucky to have such a great photo to work from!

I'm quite excited about the picture, because it feels like one of my first truly successful watercolors. I have the colors blending in the background washes and there is a nice transition from the blurry background to the crisp foreground. I'm quite excited to try the watercolors out for illustration now!

Working With Wet Blends in Watercolor

Quail

In this painting I was focused on learning how to do color blends with watercolor. If the paper is wet when the paint is applied it is possible to get the colors to mix on the page. Working on wet paper is also a good way to make the edges of the brushstroke less crisp.

I figure if I keep using the watercolors regularly I will be able to find a happy spot with them. In this piece I am interested in the way the colors are more blended instead of being sectioned off like a coloring book. On the other hand, the more I paint in this fashion, the harder it gets to put bold lines over the top. It feels like dark lines can simplify the subtleties of the under-painting.

It will work itself out as I keep using the watercolor, I'm sure. My goal is to develop an illustrative style that feels like a continuation of my acrylic paintings, but can comfortably encompass the needs that illustration dictates.

Copied a Couple of Children from a Bruegel Painting

Copied From Pieter Bruegel's "The Numbering fo the People at Bethlehem"
Using a 100 F drawing pencil, water colors, and Black Prismacolor

I have been having a great time looking through the art of Pieter Bruegel. He was known as the painter of peasants. He used to dress as a peasant and attend weddings so that he could get ideas for his genre paintings. Each image shows so many activities that were common to small 16th century villages in Italy.

My intent is to write and illustrate a children's story. Often when I think of what kind of people I want to put into the story, I think of painting peasants, depicting a life style that is humble and close to the earth.

One of the great things about Bruegel is that he simplifies the people, so they almost feel like caricatures. The facial expressions are really fun too! He likes to paint people with dramatic looks on their faces. Finally, I am noticing that he will fit many different stories into one image. So that the eye can wander around and see many things. It's like he compacts all of the interesting things you might see during a day at the town square and you get to see them al at once!