Home Studio - August 2017

My paintings are a little all over the place, but there is a method to what probably appears as madness. I'm trying all kinds of subjects to see a) what I like b) what I'm good at c) what I'm not good at and d) to continuously learn and challenge myself.

I was very happy with the way the boiled peanuts, pictured above, turned out! This is a 9x12" and I'm thinking about doing a few versions of this on different size canvases.

Here are a few more paintings from my home studio experiments:

Copying the Masters exercise - Picasso's "The Old Guitarist"

And here's the progression of the boiled peanuts:

I worked from this image I found on Google