Cotchett Education Building

This is the Cotchett Education Building on Cal Poly's campus.  In the foreground you can just see the word Design, which is on the Architecture Building.  Expect to see a picture or two of that building in the coming weeks.

I love the way the trees turned out on this picture.  They look like they have movement and life too them.  I also like the purple plants in the planter in front of the word design.  

In judging this one I think I should have made the shadows on the building darker. I think that would have given more definition to the building.  Also, I think I am gonna start to draw in pen so that I can get leaves on the trees.  As you can see I have loose drawings underneath the paint.  Drawing it this way allows me to have a general shape to the tree, but not get bogged down with a "tree" shape so that I can then just put the color on and let the tree become a tree.    Hope you all enjoy this.

Odds N Ends

This is a very quick painting of a couple of fishing  boats in the fog in Morro Bay Harbor.  

These are two quick sketches I did of the Harbor Hut tower.  Save the power plant stacks it is the highest thing around the south pier in Morro Bay Harbor.  It is obviously a south pacific themed restaurant.

Hearst Castle Tower

Here is a quick work of one of the towers of Hearst Castle.  If you don't know, I am scared to death to paint buildings.  For some reason they cause me fits.  Well, I am bound and determined to be able to paint them reasonably well.  This is an effort to paint in a very loose style.  I was trying hard not to focus on the details like the gargoyles, the cross pattern in the windows, the molding, railings, or the joint of the granite, rather just to paint the essence of the building.  I guess its like trying to paint what you see if you were to look at the building through a piece of gauze or hosiery.  I think for a first attempt at it, and for being a bit afraid of building, I did a pretty good job.