John Stewart's - A Drawing per Day Blog

Hello there:  Long time between posts.......Just finished a watercolor commission for a friend who spent 8 years working in China as a vineyard consultant.  His wife visited him several times d...

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Here's my latest oil painting.  It's titled "Looking Towards Redding", measures 12 x 40 inches and is on 1.5 inch thick stretcher bars........It's available on my website  Here.....

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This blog has been neglected, but I can't seem to let it go.  It was a very busy summer- I was getting ready for a one man show during October at the Orland Art Center.....a very nice spacious g...

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We have a life drawing workshop at the O Street Gallery in Redding, CA, on Wednesday nights.  Here's a watercolor that I did of a new model that we had.  It was her first time modeling and she ...

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I've been taking a lot of digital photos the past few years and thought I'd post a few of them. I took this one a couple of days ago:    Here's one from three months ago:    ...

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Here's another still life in oil that is 8 x 10 inches.  Had fun doing it.  I used the Genesis brand of heat treated oils for this one.  It is available.

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A couple of weeks ago I started doing some small 8 x 10 still lifes in oil.  I've been doing them from live set-ups and enjoying the process.  Here is one of them:

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On July 17th, I did an oil painting demo for The Red Bluff Art Association here in Northern California using the Genesis Heat Treated painting system.  It's a non toxic paint that comes in jars ...

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My grand daughter Carissa was visiting this week and she got me interested in colored pencils again...I hadn't used them in years.  So I did this rose drawing and enjoyed the process.  I used a...

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Just got some great news from Saatchi Art Gallery in London.  They sold one of my abstract watercolors titled "Stones and Bones".  Here is a shot of it: Here's a link to the painting on ...

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Snow happened last December here in Cottonwood and it inspired me to paint this watercolor.  I kind of like the simplicity of it, especially since I often tend to get too detailed or busy.  Hop...

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I did this watercolor about 10 days ago.  It's a snow owl flying right at you. I haven't done a lot of birds and I was pleased with the way it turned out.   It measures 18 x 24 inches.

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I sold a painting today on Daily Paintworks.  It's an old one that I did in the early 1970's in a tromp l'oeil mode of an antique dueling pistol, watch and letter.  It was originally painted in...

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Did this drawing from my imagination, but it's been getting a lot of attention on FaceBook lately so I thought I would post it here………let me know if you like it.  Thanks, John

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My granddaughter and I were drawing together last night and my wife had made some home-made kettle corn the day before and there was a huge bowl of it sitting in front of us.  So I grabbed a sma...

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Finished this watercolor a couple of days ago.  I was inspired by some cloud formations that I saw while driving home from Redding, CA.  The painting is  entirely made up from imagination and ...

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This is a very small watercolor, 4 x 8 inches that I did a couple of years ago. I really do like the desert and my late wife and I used to take trips from Los Angeles to Tuscon, AZ and it's amazi...

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I did this watercolor a couple of days ago.  I've done several similar watercolors over the years and call them Abstract Florals or in this case "Floral Fantasy".  I really enjoy doing these b...

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Here's another eye study that I did after the last posting.  It measures 4 x 4 inches and was painted in oil on a panel. PURCHASE PAINTING HERE....

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Yesterday I did a couple of small 4 x 4 inch oil studies of eyes.  It's a subject that intrigues me and I've done a few of them.  I titled this one "Surprise" (click on the image to see it a li...

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Did this one today.  It is of my right hand and since I am right handed I had to take a picture and draw from that.  I used charcoal pencil on 11 x 14 inch 70 lb. paper.  Hands and feet seem t...

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And here is another one from Glenn Vilppu's online class.  It's a study of a nude female (back view) with a lot of flexibility going on.   It was done with Prismacolor pencil with charcoal penc...

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Here's the second drawing that I did in Glenn Vilppu's online class.  It is a very complex drawing of a male back.  I was pretty pleased with the way it turned out.    (click on image to make...

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I've been checking out an online art instruction school called New Master's Academy and today I did three drawings with one of their instructors Glenn Vilppu.  He is definitely a master draughts...

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I was eating breakfast at a local restaurant yesterday and I noticed that when I closed my eyes I would see this really interesting eye floating there.  So I tried to draw what I saw and this is...

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