This painting, "At the Museum" was recently chosen Grand Prize Winner in the Masterpiece Canvas Elite Salon Contest which was co-sponsored by the Artist's Magazine who will do a feature on me as part of the prize.
These three paintings will be shipped to The Walsingham Gallery 
I chose the objects for this still life because 
Step1--Drawing....nothing fancy or detailed, just a pleasing arrangement of shapes.
Step2--Find and lay in the big shape of the darkest darks.
Step3-- Lay in the big shape of the mid tones seeking the relative differences in tone,intensity and temperature. I also put in a stroke of the lightest light as a reference to help see the relative differences in value.
Step4-- Lay in the big shape of the lighest areas of the painting, noting the relative differences in tone, intensity and temperature. I am not painting "things", just the big shapes of light, midtone and darks that the light makes over the whole scene.
Step5--finish----coming soon!
