Hawksbill Reef is now complete! After many hours in front of the canvas (and many more cleaning all those brushes) my final vision for this painting is complete. The turtle rests on a 36″ x 36″ canvas and was created using oil medium. While the drying and curing process has just begun, limited edition prints will be available soon.

Check out a time lapse view of the creation of this piece here: https://youtu.be/CjtGXoT3VYg

This year I am not only running the Art for the Cure charity art shows, but I am also donating art to other causes as well.

This year Team Kimpossible is poised for their second annual “Strike Cancer! Spare the Tatas!” bowling event. Each year they have colored bowling pins for auction as well as prizes during the bowling games but this year they asked that I paint a few for the event. Below I have the first of three pins I have began work on for the event.

Now things are starting to come together. I decided to ‘wash’ the reef as I felt that the colors were too overbearing for the scene. I was able to take a blue hue and mix it with white acrylic paint and dilute it with water. This allowed me to put a thin layer of paint on the reef making it appear as if it were further away.

I also added a few fish. To do this, I masked their silhouette using white acrylic paint. After the paint dried I colored the fish. This gave me the opportunity to paint true colors on the fish and not have to worry about the background color interfering with my pallet. I am pretty sure I am going to add more fish to this one soon.

It seems like hammerheads are pretty popular subjects around here! After completing “Peter’s Reef”, I had another request for a hammerhead over a Caribbean reef. Earlier in the week I sketched the shark and painted the background. Today I began painting the shark with the intention of just putting basic color on the animal. I ended up painting much more than that and began shading, detailing and building the reef. More images will be uploaded soon.

Check it out!