Steps to a finished painting. Mischievous Barley

Mischievous Barley
8x8
Gouache on 140# Canson watercolor paper

Available for pet commissions

 

Pass #1 - working on composition & adding color

 

Pass #2 - adding detail and more color

Pass #3Adding indemension to background

Finished painting - added much more detail and uniformity

How it will look matted & framed.

Just finished Leicester Ewe

Leicester Ewe from Colonial Williamsburg

8x8

Gouache on 140# Canson watercolor paper

$250.00 + shipping

Available at www.bill-kassel.com

Final pass

 

Second Pass

 

 

First pass

Barn on Yellow Springs Road - West Pikeland Township, PA

First pass

2nd pass adjusting height of building adding depth

3rd pass adding depth and detail

4th pass working on color and feel

5th pass - more color and detail

6th pass - almost there, color and detail

South Dakota Sunflower

First Pass

My latest painting - I decided to go in a different direction. A little more impressionistic than I usually do.

South Dakota Sunflower
8 x 12
Gouache on 140# Canson watercolor paper
From a photo taken to my trip to South Dakota a couple of years ago.

Second Pass

Third and final pass

Scarlet Tanager - Flame of Spring

Just Finished
Scarlet Tanager - Flame of Spring
10 x 7
Gouache on 140# Canson Watercolor paper

Available at bill-kassel.com

Below is the working sequence  

Pass 1

Pass 2

Pass 3

 Pass 4

Just finished - Chester Springs Springhouse at night

Just Finished
Chester Springs Springhouse at night
(Newcomen Rd. West Pikeland)
Gouache on 140# Canson watercolor paper
7 X 10
$250.00 matted & framed

FYI - no black paint was used to produce this painting. I do not use black in any of my paintings. I mix a chromatic black using prussian blue, alizarin crimson & burnt umber.

Available @ www.bill-kassel.com

Currently on my easel Night at the Spring House

This painting is definitely a challenge. Looking to play light against dark.
First pass, I started blocking in shapes, color and mood. I still need to add a little more glow to the building to add more depth.
This is a spring house located on Newcomen Rd. West Pikeland. It's a land mark I pass every day on my way home from work.

Gouache on Canson watercolor paper
7 X 10

Female Belted Kingfisher

Just finished
Female Belted Kingfisher
7 X 10
Gouache on 140# Canson watercolor paper

Reference photo by Donald Sutherland (a great birding photographer)
 
$250.00 matted & framed
Available @ www.bill-kassel.com

Abandoned Americana - Just finished

Just finished
Abandoned Americana
10 x 7
Gouache on 140# Canson Watercolor paper
$250.00 matted & framed

Available @ bill-kassel.com

After painting on slate for the last month it felt good to get back to putting paint on paper.

Currently on my easel or should I say easels

Work in progress
White Tail Deer
13 x 8
Acrylic on old roofing Slate

Work in progress
Canadian Goose
9 x 7
Acrylic on old roofing slate