Final

Aiiiight, so my summer semester is up! This is my final for landscape painting. I was given the freedom to approach it more like an illustration, so I did this sort of bookcover type painting, urban landscape with a figure.. foggy mysterious mood... Wish I had painted it bigger so I could do the face better, oh well... Flying home to Iceland in couple of days! CYA!

Muir beach

De Young museum trip

Today we had a field trip to the De Young museum. First half we sketched outside the museum, and second half we went inside and checked out the art...

A watercolor sketch of the entrance to the Japanese tea garden, which is next to the museum..

a watercolor sketch of the stairs leading up to De Young

There was an african section in the museum, really cool. Bunch of masks and figurines and real skulls..

Rooftops

We went rooftop painting today. It was a misty overcast morning.

After I finished the painting I did a few compositional sketches with watercolor. It was less cloudy and more sunny by then.

Twin Peaks

and more landscapes

This one was fun, I'm learning tons in class

This one is from a photograph of Jökulsárlón (Glacier lake) in Iceland.


and a couple of sketches from the same location as the first one.

Sketches

Quick sketches, messing around in Photoshop...

Painting at Wine Country

My new baby

about 2 hours

20 mins

More landscapes

Trying to capture that early morning light, started painting this at like 9 in the morning..


Started another one around noon. This one is pretty bad, and it got smudged too..

Landscape painting

So the summer semester started this week. I'm taking two classes, one of them is landscape painting. I'm enjoying this class very much so far. These were painted at South Park.

I'm trying to improve my eye for color and really trying to capture the light. I'll be painting around four of these every week so stay tuned :)