New Master Copy

After: ‘Landscape, 19th Century” by Camille Corot

I saw this painting in the Minneapolis Museum of Art last October and recently completed my master copy of the piece.

16×20, oil on canvas

Another 30 minute study

Oil on canvas board, 5×7

 

Leinie’s Bottle w/ Lime

Oil on canvas, 12×14, private collection

Small 30 minute oil sketch

Thrane forest, Kindred, ND
oil on canvas board, 5×7

Mark Andrews farm, Mapleton, ND

oil on canvas, 6×8

Hand-dovetailed cross, cherry and purpleheart

Left- purpleheart and cherry
Right- maple and bloodwood

I wanted to attempt to make a small project entirely without the use of power tools.  Learning how to use hand planes, saws, and scrapers was definitely a challenge but I am happy with the results.  The dovetailed cross should be virtually bombproof: the joint is cross-grained and only a dab of acetate glue was used to hold the joint in place.  Any seasonal stress and movement will not have any damaging effects on the piece.  On the other cross I used an old barn-building joint; the peg and tenon.  This joint will also be virtually indestructible, as well as beautiful.

Hand-dovetailed cross, cherry and purpleheart

Built entirely without power tools

Master Copies

B. Lindblad after “View on the Bullewijk near Amsterdam”, Rembrant van Rijn, 1650’s

B. Lindblad after “Fallen Tree, Peter Paul Rubens 1617

Badlands II, underpainting

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Landscape

Badlands Painting

Asphaltum underpainting

I wanted to try to build a painting upon a transparent asphaltum underpainting and this is how it went.  Working from a photo definitely reduced the accuracy of the atmosphere that I was attempting to portray.

Badlands, oil on board, 8×10. Private collection