Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Bye


20 cm x 15 cm (8" x 6") - Oil on Board 

Monday, April 29, 2013

One hour you said!


20 cm x 15 cm (8" x 6") - Oil on Board

Saturday, April 27, 2013

The White Hour


20 cm x 15 cm (8" x 6") - Oil on Board

Friday, April 26, 2013

Queue-Jumper


15 cm x 20 cm (8" x 6") - Oil on Board

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Remember the Sunblock


20 cm x 15 cm (8"x 6") - Oil on Canvas

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Estonia? Latvia? Lithuania?


20 cm x 15 cm (8" x 6") - Oil on Board

Donor, Acceptor and Separator


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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Jack the Lumber


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Piazza Cubetto


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Monday, April 22, 2013

Torn by Light



15 cm x 20 cm (6" x 8") - Oil on Board

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Shoot & Shine



40 cm x 30 cm (16" x 12") - Oil on Canvas

Thursday, April 18, 2013

CHEEEEESE


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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

The Mediator


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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Play Somewhere Else


20 cm x 15 cm (8" x 6") - Oil on Board

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Palette Cleaner


20 cm x 15 cm (8" x 6") - Oil on Board

Actually I was done with my painting for the day but had quite some paint on my wooden palette. Instead of throwing it away i decided to go for a late session and clean the palette with a block study.

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Balancing Partners


20 cm x 15 cm (8" x 6") - Oil on Board

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Ways Around



20 cm x 15 cm (8" x 6") - Oil on Board

Due to multiple reflections light finds its way around objects and helps us find our way around obstacles.



Monday, April 8, 2013

A Stairway Home


15 cm x 20 cm (6" x 8") - Oil on Board

This painting was inspired by the work of Lionel and Roger Penrose. They created the famous self-contained staircase on which you can go up forever in one direction or down in the other. This illusion was accomplished by an ingeneous arrangement of the steps. The goal of this work was to use color harmonies to develop a simple abstract design to create the illusion.

Law of Diminishing Returns


20 cm x 15 cm (8" x 6") - Oil on Board

"Any rate of profit, production, benefits, etc., that beyond a certain point fails to increase proportionately with added investment, effort, or skill." Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary
Whenever we learn something new, our progress is fastest right at the start. Thinking this through we should start something new every day and leave the old behind. The laws of our modern society are different. There you get all the benefit, or none, by being the fraction of a second faster or a touch smarter than your competitor. Where is your clue?



Saturday, April 6, 2013

Busy Street Scene


20 cm x 15 cm (8" x 6") - Oil on Board

Friday, April 5, 2013

Annual Growth of the Dark


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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Endless Winter


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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Kid on the New Blocks


20 cm x 15 cm (8" x 6") - Oil on Board



Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Yet Another Delivery


20 cm x 15 cm (8" x 6") - Oil on Board

Block Studies are still lifes in its purest form. They are an excellent way to train color vision and the ability to create the beautiful color harmonies of realism in paintings. Many painters spend a considerable amount of time on these simple setups, to keep these skills in shape and to further improve. For this purpose i keep making wooden blocks of various colors.