PROCESS
I’ve always enjoyed making art and am grateful for all the opportunities it has brought into my life. I specialize in being completely unspecialized, which I used to regard as a problem, but have come to recognize as an asset.
Sketch for Mt Jefferson / MHX
Painting in the mountains
Starting on the sunset
Getting the chairlift in place
Oil paint trees coming along
Glue-up on the frame
Color storage
The trees stencil
Weeding the bits
Finished weeding
Teeing up some walnut on the bandsaw.
My first experiment with spraying watercolors.
Patina on cold rolled steel with a fir frame.
An early inner frame style with contrasting species.
Prepping the second layer for spray.
The purple is a liquid rubber mask I pour over the film.
Sketching some additional ideas on to the film.
Prepping up my experimental spray system.
Preval jars with watercolor paper bands to indicate the colors within.
Salt and vinegar patina with a pass of oil stain.
Liquid rubber mask over some Ponderosa Pines.
Just watching the paint dry before removing the mask. Time to get out the hairdryer.
Considering some warm colors right and some cool colors left.
Detail on a Fir corner, patina background and trim frame.
My 8' x 8' workspace (Northwest weather permitting).
Some masking layers and sprayed watercolors, while learning to control capillary action.
First pass at building up a forest.
View from the Hook in Hood River taking shape. (Wells Island in Green)
Considering a sunset, but ultimately decided against it.
Detail on the Hood River Bridge.
This is an early sketch on masking film with notes to myself as to fade directions (arrows).
Letting the glue set on this first half of the frame.
Trimming out some of the masking film.
Masking tape over the liquid rubber to shield the mountains.
Trees painted black, masking tape removed, time to peel up the liquid rubber.
Waiting for the glue (Lexel) to dry on the trim frame.
Crazy masking job on the power lines at 22nd and May street in Hood River.
About to paint the Columbia river and the sky.
I often work on the ramp with knee pads and a drop cloth. Pretty classy.
A 7' long Columbia River taking shape.
Waiting for the corners to set on the last panel of the 'Quintych'.
Experimental frame style that I did on each of the five elements of the 'Quintych'. Super lightweight.
Masking film on the Black Walnut with a sample texture of gesso with 170 grit sand mixed in.
Base prepped for these Hemlock trees, about to spray dark green.
Busy workspace on the flat of the skate ramp.
Setting some corners of a rear frame.
Birch panel with Hemlock rear frame where the mounting cable will connect.
Letting the glue set on a 3/8" walnut frame for the Mt Hood from Parkdale image.
The hills of Hood River and Bingen after a first pass of water-based enamel.
Watercolor base on a 7' tall Mt Adams / Forest.
This started out as a study for Mt Adams but turned into a Wedding gift for Ryan & Lauren.
Busy garage now that the kids are back in school.
Backside of the Hood River Bridge frame.
Dead trees in the Mt Adams forest.
Lower corner of Mt Adams forest.
Framework on the Mt Adams piece.
My lovely assistant working on an interesting glue-up.