A Winslow Homer Recreation for my Aunt

My aunt and her significant other love fishing, I'm talking die-hard fish lovers. I hear stories how he had no money and just ate what he could catch at the ocean. It just so happens that one of my all-time favorite paintings is a painting by Winslow Homer called, The Fog Warning. It's a beautiful image of a man heading out to sea in his little row boat. He clearly caught some fish this day and he looks over his shoulder at the approaching weather and powers forward. It's a beautiful statement and skillful work of art. I don't pretend to hold a candle to the likes of ole' Winslow, but that didn't stop me from wanting to study his method on this one, which turned into a lovely gift:

 

Poorly cropped, I know. What's your favorite fishing painting?

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Sketches of Portland Bridges

I've been dicking around with sketching the Portland bridges. I'm starting to understand the fascination of other artists in town. The first one is the Hawthorne, on 8"x11":

Unable to get the detail I needed to really "wow" it, I brought a bigger sketchpad the next time. The Burnside, open for a cargo ship:

More to come!

OHSU stairs sketch

I just unearthed this sketch and figured I ought to share it... at the top of the giant staircase by the Nursing School at OHSU:

Korkage wineshop musician sketches

I've recently started frequenting this wine shop in Hillsdale called Korkage. This place is great - they have live music three nights a week with no cover and serve fantastic glasses of wine. Their taste is really impeccable, the music is always really lovely to listen to. For me, it's become a perfect place to sit, drink some wine and sketch my favorite type of subjects. Musicians are the perfect drawing models because they are there to be looked at, they stay relatively still and don't ever seem to mind that you're drawing them. The first sketch was of a duo called The Big North Duo:

I was told by the owner that people were talking about this sketch, which, admittedly, is not my favorite. Nevertheless, this week, I went there and saw Jeff Putterman on his seven string classical guitar. That was a treat and the sketch I was able to complete was more pleasing to me:

You should see that one up on the wall at Korkage with a reasonable price tag on it in the next couple weeks. I've already found a friend willing to make a handmade frame to put it in. I'm a lucky gal to find so much support for my art.