Entries by David Gordon

Examining Ambitions

Today I was talking to a friend at the life drawing session that I attend most Sundays. I was excited when she started talking about finding the motivation to paint, since that is what I’ve been writing about. She said that often she simply doesn’t feel like working every single day and that she ends […]

Risk Management

Art is about taking risks, right? Of course it is, but there’s no need to be macho about it. There are times when you feel confident and want to dive right in, to take your painting forward or make drastic changes, and that’s exactly what you need to do. Other times you might be less […]

Painting Big

I worked steadily on this painting for the last two days. It is the first large painting that I have started in almost five years. (I had to think to come up with that time frame and it blows my mind; I can’t believe that It has been so long.) The painting is 3 X […]

Working Strategies

Here is the monochromatic version again with a few changes, and below is the watercolor. I now have enough information to go back to the 3 X 4 ft. oil painting. I have tried the more traditional technique of painting over a monochromatic under painting, but it just didn’t work well for me. Instead, I […]