Recent Still-life paintings

Copper & Red Onions - oil on linen 18" X  15"

Fruit, Vessels, & Fabric - oil on linen 13" X 17"

Pears, Plums, & Old Silver - oil on prepared paper 12" X 16"

High Key Arrangement - oil on prepared paper 12" X 16"

I started pushing and experimenting with the edges a little more in these last two:

Red Pear - oil on linen 9" X 9"

Metals & Glass - oil on linen 20" X 20"

New Landscape

Figure Drawings - week of 3/18/13

Here are the new figure drawings from last week:

2 minute gestures:

Some 10 minute poses:

Some 20 to 30 minute poses - the portrait was somewhat refined later in the studio:

Figure Drawings

Here's one of the newer posts from my Wordpress blog:
http://patrickleefineart.com/blog/some-new-figure-drawings-2/

2 X 20 show at St. Vincent College

I've been invited  to display two paintings in this show:  http://gallery.stvincent.edu/

Thank you to gallery director Br. Nathan Cochran for inviting me to be a part of this!

ACOPOL competition news

-My painting was one of fifty selected as finalists for the ACOPAL competition: http://acopal.org/index.php?option=com_datsogallery&func=detail&catid=2&id=140&Itemid=58  This is a great honor & I feel like I am in really good company!  Don't forget to vote if you like the painting (you don't have to be signed in). Thanks!

Touchstone paintings

Here are some of the paintings I did during my class at Touchstone Center for Crafts last weekend - We went to Ohiopyle State Park on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning:

These were done on the grounds at Touchstone:

For these last two we went into the woods to practice simplifying a more complex subject by establishing the basic values, shapes, and colors of the scene as quickly as possible - it was a great time.