Hot dogs

A 6x6 gouache painting "Hotdogs"

Painting in Edisto

A small gouache painting I painted this year in Edisto Beach SC. You can see more here https://www.instagram.com/cheeklindafineart/

From my sketchbook

From my sketchbook a small pen and ink and a gouache study  of boats.

"FOR SALE"

A  new gouache painting "For Sale" 6x8 on paper.

The Finished Sketch

Two paintings "Flooded Field " 4x7  and "End of Day" 4x7 painted in gouache on paper, The "Finished Sketch" and the term preliminary study are nearly identical in meaning,but if the painting sketch is placing the emphasis on an appreciation of the essential artistic qualities of each sketch, rather than on how a sketch relates to a further work,then we could say we have a finished painted sketch.

A Painted Sketch

I've been working in gouache and casein on small panel and paper with the intention of redressing my interest in the water medium I once used as an illustrator.  I now find I also have to take another look at  "the sketch" just what is a sketch?  Issues of size, intent, medium, and function are the most common determinants used  to separate one type of artistic endeavor from another.

In the eighteenth century, France had a scale of preliminary works that  progress from croquis, to pochade, to etude. and the categories did not stop there. "The Painted Sketch"an anticipation or maybe a taste.