50-50 Entry Sample Diptychs

Surfer's Beach, watercolor and oil
OIL AND W/C SOLD

Poppy Field, watercolor and oil

McNee Ranch, watercolor and oil

 Theme (10 words or less): California landscape in watercolor reexamined in oil.

I gained special permission to submit diptychs for the Sanchez 50-50 show, a juried show in which selected artists paint fifty 6 x 6" paintings in fifty days. Clay spend a good part of a day making the diptych JPEGs for me. (Dipsticks, he called them.)

I'm very excited about how these look side by side. The "dipsticks" show the difference in the two media: the vibrancy, the washes, the feel. The pigments are extremely close because when I went back to oils, after fifteen years of studying pigments with Evelyn, I researched the oils and choose those oils with the exact same pigments as my favorite watercolors. Finally, I feel that I have come into my own as an artist with these two media. I painted oils for four years in high school and then watercolors for fifteen years with Evelyn. I feel complete, now, working in both media.

Painting 129 Poppy Field in Oil

Poppy Field, oil, 9 x 12"


 I painted this in plein air and wanted the pea rows in the foreground. It ended up being so loose. After I got it home, I wasn't sure that I liked it, but it grew on me as it dried.

 

Paintings 127 and 128, Poppy Field in watercolor

Poppy Field I, watercolor, 5 x 7"

Poppy Field II, watercolor, 7.5 x 11

Three weeks ago, the pea field next to Young Avenue was bursting out with poppies and wild purple mustard. I just had to go down and paint it. In Poppy Field I, I added a barn that isn't really there. Poppy Field II was a demonstration painting that I did for my CUMC art class.

Again, I'm trying to pick which one to enter in the juried art show. Suggestions?

Paintings 124, 125, and 126 McNee Ranch, Revisted

McNee Ranch I, watercolor and ink, 7 x 4.5"

McNee Ranch, watercolor on canvas, 14 x 11", collection of Bryan Richter

McNeeRanch II, watercolor, 7 x 5"

I am entering the 50-50 show at the Sanchez Art Center, in which I pick three California landscapes, painted in both watercolor and oil. I am deciding between these three to go with the oil below. Which do you recommend?

Painting 123 Surfer's Beach in Oil

Surfer's Beach, oil on canvas, 12 x 24" is reexamined from a watercolor painting. I went back down to the beach to repaint the ocean, mid mountain, and rip rap in plein air.