Recent Doodles

For this year’s Atomic Christmas, I decided to go with a more muted palette, and a more “traditional” Christmas tree. I figured the owner of this house in the Doodle Park suburbs did not part easily with tradition.

See the previous four “Atomic Christmases: #1, #2, #3 and #4.

Merry Christmas to all, from Doodle Park!

This painting is my first using gesso board instead of canvas. I enjoyed it very much and definitely plan to use it again in the future.

For this year’s Atomic Christmas, (See #1 and #2) I decided to go for a full out family portrait, something I’ve never attempted earlier. Also, we have the most recent appearance of the Little White Dog. (See his past guest spots here, here, and here.)

For the second installment of “Atomic Christmas” (See #1 here) I decided to go with the big aluminum tree, painted a subtle pink. The idea of non-traditional colors at the tradition-heaviest time of the year is something I love exploring.

There’s another little cameo from a past painting in this piece; the girl from “Blue”.

In the sketch, the bartender was originally a male. I changed it in the final because I wanted the titular “Catch” to be the only man in the scene.

I wanted to concentrate solely on background with these paintings. Normally, the background of a painting exists around the figures. I wanted to see how I approached setting with no figures to influence it.