Still Life

Landscapes

Architecture

Religious

Arroyo Seco Landscape
May 2002

A particularly difficult subject - I believe this was my fifth or seventh attempt at painting this subject. I gave up after this one, realizing that this would probably be the best painting I would do with this subject.

The small drawings in the upper left hand corner are value/composition studies. My teacher, Joseph Stoddard, suggests doing a number of these studies before setting paint to the paper in order to have an idea of how you'd like the painting to turn out.

After a few years of looking at this painting, I have come to like it, especially the colors.