When Asked...

...what I would do when I finished the big painting of Aspen trees, I would deadpan, "Get drunk for a week" without skipping a beat. I did get drunk that night (thank you friends for the very memorable fourth), but was back in the studio the next morning, err, afternoon. With my solo show upcoming, I've been at it since, morning noon and night. The upside of having a jumbled schedule is usually catching both the sunset and sunrise. Most mornings I can be found out in ocean, photographing the water before the wind picks up.


The downside of such a schedule is that you lose all sense of time. And unfortunately, I also forgot to blog. But I will remedy that over the next few weeks. Here is the first of the larger paintings for the September show.


It is a first layer underpainting, so the hues are bumped in value. The next layer will be softer and more defined, but the colors below influence the subsequent layers.


- jb boyd

The End.

Yup, that says it all.


But before I go, Stuart and Val, you deserve a special thank you. Thank you for your continued patronage. Thank you for leaving two spots in your then yet to built home. Thank you for then commissioning four. Thank you for never asking when they would be done, even though your house was. Thank you for paying well before it was done, when I was tiring of ramen noodles and pb&js. But mostly, thank you for your faith in me and what I do. Without that, this would not be a painting today. It would not even be an idea for a painting. Instead, it is ul 98 (so real).

Woo hoo!

- jb boyd

And Then There Was One.

- jb boyd