Gunslinger
101 Oil Studies, No. 68
Objective: Life Drawing model with setting from photograph
Painted in 4 sessions: 17–22 April 2025
Pigments (Winsor & Newton Artists' oil colour unless otherwise noted): Warm grey (Rembrandt), lamp black, Permalba white (Weber), Winsor yellow, yellow ochre, raw umber, transparent earth red (Gamblin), French ultramarine. Mediums: Gamsol, Oleogel.
Centurion OP DLX oil primed linen, 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 inches)
I painted the figure during a Sunday Life Drawing session at the New Mexico Art League studio April 20; model Nicholas and about 115 working minutes. (I had prepared the linen with a wash on April 17.) In the remaining sessions I created the background based on my photographs of a historic fort near Junction, Colorado, which I had visited in 2016.
After Action Evaluation: (1) The sky goes below the horizon line established by the perspective. (2) The indoor lighting for the figure sisn't match the outdoor lighting for the background, and it shows. (3) The top of the barrier next to the cowboy isn't in harmony with the rest of the fort coloring.
Gunslinger
101 Oil Studies, No. 68
Objective: Life Drawing model with setting from photograph
Painted in 4 sessions: 17–22 April 2025
Pigments (Winsor & Newton Artists' oil colour unless otherwise noted): Warm grey (Rembrandt), lamp black, Permalba white (Weber), Winsor yellow, yellow ochre, raw umber, transparent earth red (Gamblin), French ultramarine. Mediums: Gamsol, Oleogel.
Centurion OP DLX oil primed linen, 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 inches)
I painted the figure during a Sunday Life Drawing session at the New Mexico Art League studio April 20; model Nicholas and about 115 working minutes. (I had prepared the linen with a wash on April 17.) In the remaining sessions I created the background based on my photographs of a historic fort near Junction, Colorado, which I had visited in 2016.
After Action Evaluation: (1) The sky goes below the horizon line established by the perspective. (2) The indoor lighting for the figure sisn't match the outdoor lighting for the background, and it shows. (3) The top of the barrier next to the cowboy isn't in harmony with the rest of the fort coloring.