2018 Finger Paintings!

[Chad Weatherford]

Another from Sooke, Vancouver Island

[Chad Weatherford]

Sooke, Vancouver Island

[Chad Weatherford]

Forum doesn’t like it if the text is identical to the previous post, regardless of the image. Sooke, Vancouver Island

[Chad Weatherford]

Last one painted in Sooke...well last one finished anyhow. Had a few that died on the vine

[D Akey]

Love the glow in the highlights in the water in the last ocean one.

[pai]

All these new paintings since I last visited are certainly visually stunning eye candy. Agreed with Dakey, the lighting on the last one is so beatifully painted. :)

[danny72]

Great artworks!

[Chad Weatherford]

Love the glow in the highlights in the water in the last ocean one.

Thanks D Akey

[Chad Weatherford]

Great artworks!

Thank you!

[Chad Weatherford]

A few years ago from our deck , when wildfires choked out the sun.

[Chad Weatherford]

Vanier Park

[jonwood]

nice work Chad..

[D Akey]

Oh, we have had seasons of fire in the hills here in Los Angeles and there definitely was this level of brown in the air. It's a bitch to breathe in such a circumstance especially if you are close enough to the source of the smoke for it to be this heavy. I can't even imagine how the firefighters must experience it.

Do you remember the ash falling like snowflakes? That was the most surreal part for me. And everything felt like it was covered with a very thin layer of sap. Sticky and gritty. So nice painting. The good news is that the mountain lions probably left the area for a bit so all you had to worry about in the plein aire was the roaming bands of flesh eating zombies. They don't mention that too much when trying to recruit people into art school.

[Chad Weatherford]

nice work Chad..

Thanks John!

[Chad Weatherford]

Oh, we have had seasons of fire in the hills here in Los Angeles and there definitely was this level of brown in the air. It's a bitch to breathe in such a circumstance especially if you are close enough to the source of the smoke for it to be this heavy. I can't even imagine how the firefighters must experience it.

Do you remember the ash falling like snowflakes? That was the most surreal part for me. And everything felt like it was covered with a very thin layer of sap. Sticky and gritty. So nice painting. The good news is that the mountain lions probably left the area for a bit so all you had to worry about in the plein aire was the roaming bands of flesh eating zombies. They don't mention that too much when trying to recruit people into art school.

I imagine you probably get a more upfront experience with the fires? We didn’t get ash here, but a number of years ago I was living in Colorado Springs and got to experience the snowflake ash you described. Pretty surreal.
Hah no flesh eating zombies that time. A few more wildfires and they will be growing out of the soil.
Thank you!

[Chad Weatherford]

Sketch of a fellow commuter/unwitting model.

[Chad Weatherford]

Cloudscape from a couple years ago. I feel like maybe my attention to edges has improved since then.

[gxhpainter]

I just love seeing your work Chad, it is so refreshingly simple yet sophisticated as well. beautiful color control , and brushwork..

[eighty+]

25. Chad is my favourite. Ok. Ciao. SLAINTE

[hildee]

A wonderful bunch of paintings on these pages! Thank you!

[pai]

Love the cloud painting. Beautiful :)

[Chad Weatherford]

I just love seeing your work Chad, it is so refreshingly simple yet sophisticated as well. beautiful color control , and brushwork..

Thank you so much Gary, I appreciate that!

[Chad Weatherford]

25. Chad is my favourite. Ok. Ciao. SLAINTE

Thank you eighty! I’m glad you like it!

[Chad Weatherford]

A wonderful bunch of paintings on these pages! Thank you!

Thank you for checking them out!

[Chad Weatherford]

Love the cloud painting. Beautiful :)

Thank you very much!

[Chad Weatherford]

Pink Alley near Gastown. Bounced light everywhere!

[Chad Weatherford]

Trying to find an interesting composition with a simple subject

[Chad Weatherford]

Lunchtime sketch.

[Chad Weatherford]

Sketched in my moms house...chasing that light beam across the floor

[Chad Weatherford]

This is what passes for artists socialising. Lunchtime sketch of a work colleague:D

[Chad Weatherford]

Avenue near home in West Vancouver.

[Chad Weatherford]

Vancouver from Vanier Park

[Chad Weatherford]

Sketched from the bus stop at the bottom of our street. I actually painted this a few years ago, but the scene looked exactly the same this year, with the August sun hitting the same position from my point of view.

[damasocl]

Tus trabajos son muy originales y muy bien logrados... Felicitaciones!

[Chad Weatherford]

Tus trabajos son muy originales y muy bien logrados... Felicitaciones!

Muchas Gracias!

[Chad Weatherford]

Sketch of a work colleague from a few years ago.

[Chad Weatherford]

Painted this car in the alleyway outside work last year. The wildfires has turned the sun into a pink ball, casting mars like light everywhere. The colours are fairly accurate to what I saw.

[Chad Weatherford]

Sketching on the runway.

[Chad Weatherford]

Outside of Tucson Arizona. A bit of Photoshop in this one as well as ArtRage.

[D Akey]

My wife was just driving home through one of the canyons late this afternoon and she mentioned that a fire just started right above her on the road she was traversing. Fire trucks were just getting there. But they closed the road just after she got through.

And yes, I recognize the orange cast you gave that one with the car when your area had fires.

I really like the Arizona one. Great way to show the colors of those hills and surrounds. Nice rich palette you used. Adds life to it.

[Chad Weatherford]

My wife was just driving home through one of the canyons late this afternoon and she mentioned that a fire just started right above her on the road she was traversing. Fire trucks were just getting there. But they closed the road just after she got through.

And yes, I recognize the orange cast you gave that one with the car when your area had fires.

I really like the Arizona one. Great way to show the colors of those hills and surrounds. Nice rich palette you used. Adds life to it.

Thanks D Akey, I guess these types of colours will become more common in a warming climate huh?

Was your wife alarmed by the fire? I guess it would have been some distance above.

[Chad Weatherford]

A quick sketch of a sock monkey at my dads house.

[Chad Weatherford]

I was looking at a lot of Fred Cummings work when I painted this. Not that it looks like anything he would paint, but there was a small influence.

[Chad Weatherford]

4am painting of my dads back yard in Dewey, Arizona. Kind of a spontaneous session.

[Enug]

You really captured the moonlight Chad. I might not comment often but I always look and I admire all your paintings.

[gxhpainter]

More delights for us, I love the sock monkey! and the moonlight scene you captured the mood exactly, and that is no easy feat! I like the simple scene of the backyard, everyone tucked away and it's stillness
really one of your best

[Chad Weatherford]

Thank you June, much appreciated!

[Chad Weatherford]

More delights for us, I love the sock monkey! and the moonlight scene you captured the mood exactly, and that is no easy feat! I like the simple scene of the backyard, everyone tucked away and it's stillness
really one of your best

Thanks Gary, that means a lot...it was tricky to achieve.

[D Akey]

Thanks D Akey, I guess these types of colours will become more common in a warming climate huh?

Was your wife alarmed by the fire? I guess it would have been some distance above.

Indeed about the global warming palette.

Yeah. I think I was more alarmed than her because she called me in process and I only had my knowledge of the road and an overwhelming concern especially hearing it over the phone. The fire was close to the road and there's nowhere to escape on those narrow roads if the traffic is locked. Not like on the freeway where there are multiple lanes in two directions. I've experienced that once but it was being contained.

She was on a one lane road each way. They're roads carved out of the hills which are too steep for any vehicle except on roads. And these fires can spread super fast down here where it's dry scrub. Anyway, she had just passed the fire before they closed the road. They apparently got it put out before it got away from them. Cheers to the firefighters around here. But it's scary as hell because it can and does get away from them enough that it's always a real thing.

[Chad Weatherford]

Indeed about the global warming palette.

Yeah. I think I was more alarmed than her because she called me in process and I only had my knowledge of the road and an overwhelming concern especially hearing it over the phone. The fire was close to the road and there's nowhere to escape on those narrow roads if the traffic is locked. Not like on the freeway where there are multiple lanes in two directions. I've experienced that once but it was being contained.

She was on a one lane road each way. They're roads carved out of the hills which are too steep for any vehicle except on roads. And these fires can spread super fast down here where it's dry scrub. Anyway, she had just passed the fire before they closed the road. They apparently got it put out before it got away from them. Cheers to the firefighters around here. But it's scary as hell because it can and does get away from them enough that it's always a real thing.

Absolutely nuts. Glad she made it home safely. My dad was seeing the Prescott area fires in AZ glowing in the night sky from his home in Dewey. He was insisting on staying there until forced to evacuate. Luckily the fire was put out before it could cause further devastation and reach his home.

[Chad Weatherford]

Outside Prescott Arizona.

[Chad Weatherford]

Jackie from Jackie Boyz Pizza in Dewey, AZ. We went there for my dads birthday a few years back and Jackie sure had some stories to tellwhile we ate.

[Chad Weatherford]

This one is an invented scene using various reference...it serves as a study for a commissioned painting by my last surviving grandmother.

[gxhpainter]

more wonderful work, how you get such control of hues and values to present atmospheric conditions is amazing to me. It looks like your grandmother loved golf or your grandfather did and this is a tribute to him for her... anyway masterfully done.

[Chad Weatherford]

more wonderful work, how you get such control of hues and values to present atmospheric conditions is amazing to me. It looks like your grandmother loved golf or your grandfather did and this is a tribute to him for her... anyway masterfully done.

I appreciate that Gary! Yea they sure played a lot of golf when they were still able to get around.

[Chad Weatherford]

One thing I regret is not doing some more sky studies in Arizona. The clouds are amazing.

[Chad Weatherford]

Outside Prescott.

[Chad Weatherford]

And closing in on Phoenix. Sketching at 65 mph.

[D Akey]

Well, you may not have painted your fill of Arizona skies, but you sure got the earth part knocked. Great colors.

[Chad Weatherford]

Thank you for that! I would love to just go there on a painting trip...pretty inspiring scenery.

[Chad Weatherford]

I think these are called Palm Verde trees. I found the green trunks fascinating, and sketched this one at a gas station on the way to Phoenix.

[Chad Weatherford]

Outside Prescott. Added more rocks than what was in the actual scene.

[Chad Weatherford]

SkyHarbor International in Phoenix.

[gxhpainter]

Hi Chad, I loved your Arizona series, as a desert rat I know the beauty of the Southwest and the diversity of beautiful mountains, and wide skies. I have to ask, you may have already said, are all these done on an iPad and if so what size? the pro or the ipad 2. Do you use a stylus at all or just your finger? I am thinking about diving into that and kinda wanted to know a good setup.

[Chad Weatherford]

Hi Chad, I loved your Arizona series, as a desert rat I know the beauty of the Southwest and the diversity of beautiful mountains, and wide skies. I have to ask, you may have already said, are all these done on an iPad and if so what size? the pro or the ipad 2. Do you use a stylus at all or just your finger? I am thinking about diving into that and kinda wanted to know a good setup.

Thank you Gary! I use an iPad 2 with just my finger. Size varies, but I’m usually maxing the size out to 2048 pixels wide, which is the limitation on the ArtRage app...at least with my current iPad. I would recommend the pro with a stylus if you can splurge for it. The advantage of just using a finger is there is less to keep track of, just pull out the iPad and go.

I often run these through Photoshop to make some final marks and/or apply an unsharpen filter to crispen up the ‘details’. Invariably I end up being dissatisfied at that point and bring it back into the ArtRage app to soften some edges, make additional marks, or overhaul even further.

[Chad Weatherford]

I actually find aerials to be somewhat meditative to do, similar to rendering hair.

[Chad Weatherford]

Closing in on Vancouver.

[Chad Weatherford]

This was sketched on my way to work during the advent of the last solar eclipse, as the moon began to slowly creep over the sun. While the effect wasn’t captured here, 30 minutes later the dappled light from trees was casting little moon (half sun) shapes across the ground. It was pretty dazzling. This has some psd texture brushes applied over the initial Fingerpainting.

[eighty+]

Hi Chad I thought it must be Loch Ness ;););););););););););) :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:confused::confused::confused::coo l::cool::cool:

OK CIAO IYAVA CON DIOS SLAINTE

[gxhpainter]

Thanks for the information Chad ! and it goes without saying it is the artist not the tools that makes art! Especially so in your case. I think you are part of a new generation of plein-air painters that can work digitally as well as with traditional media.

[gxhpainter]

one of your best IMHO. you have said so much without overworking a complex scene.

[Chad Weatherford]

Hi Chad I thought it must be Loch Ness ;););););););););););) :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:confused::confused::confused::coo l::cool::cool:

OK CIAO IYAVA CON DIOS SLAINTE

Haaah yes it looks like it!

[Chad Weatherford]

Thanks for the information Chad ! and it goes without saying it is the artist not the tools that makes art! Especially so in your case. I think you are part of a new generation of plein-air painters that can work digitally as well as with traditional media.

Any time! And thank you very much. After this year ends I think I’ll try out gouache. I’ve recieved a lot of comments how these paintings look surprisingly like gouache and yet I’ve never actually painted with gouache. Do you paint traditionally as well?

[Chad Weatherford]

one of your best IMHO. you have said so much without overworking a complex scene.

Thanks Gary! I’m honestly not sure whisch one you are referring to but I’ll take it!

[Chad Weatherford]

Quick one looking down our street in the morning.

[pai]

I love that green tree branches and the colours you used in it. Beautiful :)

[D Akey]

Looks good. So what month have you gotten to with your year long trail of paintings? I can only imagine that one would find an even more amazing artist waiting for you at the end of it. Continuity is so powerful.

[gxhpainter]

Any time! And thank you very much. After this year ends I think I’ll try out gouache. I’ve recieved a lot of comments how these paintings look surprisingly like gouache and yet I’ve never actually painted with gouache. Do you paint traditionally as well? Hi Chad sorry for the late reply, but yes I painted traditionally for nearly 35 years ( but the last twenty have just been digital work ) with all types of media, acrylics, oils, watercolor and gouache. I especially liked gouache as you can quickly build up layers of color much like acrylic or oils but much faster of course. I also like to use a medium with it, consisting of an egg yolk pricked so only the yolk drained out and i discarded the yolk sac. Then mixed in a little distilled water and a drop of white vinegar. This gave the paint a beautiful satin sheen. Let me know when you try them out!!.

[Chad Weatherford]

I love that green tree branches and the colours you used in it. Beautiful :)

Thank you very much for the kind words.

[Chad Weatherford]

Looks good. So what month have you gotten to with your year long trail of paintings? I can only imagine that one would find an even more amazing artist waiting for you at the end of it. Continuity is so powerful.

I’m into October right now. If I could muster 3 a day for a couple weeks I’d be caught up...but then I get stuck on one for a few days so I tend to lose the ground I gain with a surge.

I feel like I have already learned a lot just pumping through these...if I am a stronger artist at the end I will be very happy!

[D Akey]

I’m into October right now. If I could muster 3 a day for a couple weeks I’d be caught up...but then I get stuck on one for a few days so I tend to lose the ground I gain with a surge.

I feel like I have already learned a lot just pumping through these...if I am a stronger artist at the end I will be very happy!

I have found that it's the attention one pays that determines the benefit level. I have done it both ways, just to accomplish something in a very relaxed way even letting my mind drift compared to freaking out that I was going to lose a job for example, and the latter I'm sorry to say was where the big jumps ahead came to me. Would that it were the other way around, but at least for me, that's where it proved to me a benefit I didn't expect.

So, for what it's worth, my humble recommendation is to not do it for matching a personal quota, although that's good too. But I have a feeling that the ones where you had to really focus to be where the real sharpness in problem solving would pay off. Besides it would probably be more satisfying anyway -- you know, mountains climbed and all that.

Have fun too! For an artist all that is the real meat of the process I would think. . . unless of course you're a vegetarian.

[Chad Weatherford]

Hi Chad sorry for the late reply, but yes I painted traditionally for nearly 35 years ( but the last twenty have just been digital work ) with all types of media, acrylics, oils, watercolor and gouache. I especially liked gouache as you can quickly build up layers of color much like acrylic or oils but much faster of course. I also like to use a medium with it, consisting of an egg yolk pricked so only the yolk drained out and i discarded the yolk sac. Then mixed in a little distilled water and a drop of white vinegar. This gave the paint a beautiful satin sheen. Let me know when you try them out!!.

That’s an interesting mixture with the yoke and vinegar ..would the egg yoke hasten the drying as well? That stuff is sticky!

[Chad Weatherford]

I have found that it's the attention one pays that determines the benefit level. I have done it both ways, just to accomplish something in a very relaxed way even letting my mind drift compared to freaking out that I was going to lose a job for example, and the latter I'm sorry to say was where the big jumps ahead came to me. Would that it were the other way around, but at least for me, that's where it proved to me a benefit I didn't expect.

So, for what it's worth, my humble recommendation is to not do it for matching a personal quota, although that's good too. But I have a feeling that the ones where you had to really focus to be where the real sharpness in problem solving would pay off. Besides it would probably be more satisfying anyway -- you know, mountains climbed and all that.

Have fun too! For an artist all that is the real meat of the process I would think. . . unless of course you're a vegetarian.

Ah I’ve reached a certain fatigue with these but they are still mostly fun to do. I do agree (which is what I think you are saying) that the pressure cooker makes me learn faster. The ones I get stuck on and have to eventually force out usually result in failures...at least in my mind. Even though I initially run circles in a vain effort to keep them from failing, those turn into even more useful lessons.

[Chad Weatherford]

Sketched some gargoyles high up on the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Vancouver.

[Chad Weatherford]

At the boatyard on Granville Island.

[Chad Weatherford]

Became obsessed with an earthy, dusty corner at the Shore Equestrian during a break in my daughters horse riding lessons.

[Chad Weatherford]

Little sci fi scene that went from Ipad ArtRage to desktop and back.

[Chad Weatherford]

Back to a terrestrial study of some Granville Island seagulls

[Chad Weatherford]

Scene from our deck last year

[D Akey]

Looking good. Hard to imagine you getting tired of chronicling your travels. If it's like I've known it, there are plenty of pockets of down time and this is a very productive and pleasurable way to fill in the blank spaces. Go go go!!!

[Chad Weatherford]

Looking good. Hard to imagine you getting tired of chronicling your travels. If it's like I've known it, there are plenty of pockets of down time and this is a very productive and pleasurable way to fill in the blank spaces. Go go go!!!


Thanks D Akey! I wish I had more pockets

[Chad Weatherford]

Lunchtime sketch near English Bay.

[Chad Weatherford]

Another lunchtime sketch of some outriggers....well started at lunch and finished later. The colours seemed fun to capture

[Chad Weatherford]

Another lunchtime painting looking across the Inlet towards Vancouver from Vanier Park

[eighty+]

yeah Chad baffled bewildered and still amazed :eek::eek: CIAO SLAINTE

[pai]

Love that rock sand painting. The color and contrast lighting is awesome.

[Chad Weatherford]

yeah Chad baffled bewildered and still amazed :eek::eek: CIAO SLAINTE

Thank you eighty!

[Chad Weatherford]

Love that rock sand painting. The color and contrast lighting is awesome.


Thanks Pai!
Full disclosure I intended it to be shallow water in that painting near a rocky shore. A bit too vague in the details perhaps

[Chad Weatherford]

Self portrait in cinematic light. Worked off a photograph but added lighting using a film reference. Face could use a bit of finessing, but I avoided working too long on it.

[Chad Weatherford]

Hay bails in Abbotsford, BC. The area reminded me of trips through Iowa and Illinois growing up. Warm memories of hay bales, wondering what they were dotted along the rural landscapes.

[Chad Weatherford]

Barn in Abbotsford.;)

[Chad Weatherford]

Early morning tree in Abbotsford, BC. Painted mostly on location.

[eighty+]

HI Chad Fab Fab :confused: but do trees have lunch as well ????? ;) :D:D:D:D:D:D CIAO SLAINTE

[damasocl]

Como siempre, tus pinturas excelentes!!! Felicitaciones!

[pai]

Beautiful tree painting. Like it a lot :)

[D Akey]

Interesting variance in technique between the Abbotsford barn and the one below it also from Abbotsford. Both have a fine look for different reasons. The barn has a feeling of choppy, somewhat dry transparency (which fits a weathered barn and the scrub around it) while the one with the tree is creamy as if the golden hour light has taken and smoothed out all the rough edges of the day sort of like a memory.

But they're all great. Nice self-portrait as well. They don't all need to be detailed, especially in the dim light where you don't always see everything unless you're really after a likeness. Has a natural feel that way.

Cool!

[Chad Weatherford]

HI Chad Fab Fab :confused: but do trees have lunch as well ????? ;) :D:D:D:D:D:D CIAO SLAINTE

Thanks eighty! Not sure if I understand the question, but I’ll bet they do!

[Chad Weatherford]

Como siempre, tus pinturas excelentes!!! Felicitaciones!

muchas gracias!

[Chad Weatherford]

Beautiful tree painting. Like it a lot :)


Thank you pai!

[Chad Weatherford]

Interesting variance in technique between the Abbotsford barn and the one below it also from Abbotsford. Both have a fine look for different reasons. The barn has a feeling of choppy, somewhat dry transparency (which fits a weathered barn and the scrub around it) while the one with the tree is creamy as if the golden hour light has taken and smoothed out all the rough edges of the day sort of like a memory.

But they're all great. Nice self-portrait as well. They don't all need to be detailed, especially in the dim light where you don't always see everything unless you're really after a likeness. Has a natural feel that way.

Cool!

Thank you for that! Always interesting to hear your analysis and descriptions. I am thinking you would make a great critic or author.

[Chad Weatherford]

More trees, this time at dusk and on our street close to home.

[Chad Weatherford]

Another rural scene from Abbotsford, BC

[Chad Weatherford]

Meanwhile, back in Vancouver the late summer wildfire smoke sets in...

[Chad Weatherford]

View down our street painted in wildlife smoke colours

[Chad Weatherford]

Another self portrait attempt in cinematic light. The lighting was achieved using a film frame for reference.

[byroncallas]

Fantastic thread. I love your paintings.

[Chad Weatherford]

Thank you very much Byron!

[Chad Weatherford]

Filtered through drifting wildfire haze, the sun was a pink ball in September.

[sabena]

Fantastic paintings very well done:rolleyes:

[D Akey]

More fun in the modern world. You're journaling in pictures. Chronicle, baby, show 'em in the future what it was like back when.

[Chad Weatherford]

Fantastic paintings very well done:rolleyes:

Thank you Sabena

[Chad Weatherford]

More fun in the modern world. You're journaling in pictures. Chronicle, baby, show 'em in the future what it was like back when.

Haha I shall try. I may have to print some out and vacuum pack ‘em to show the future maybe.

[Chad Weatherford]

Lunchtime sketch of a coworker.

[Chad Weatherford]

Started this sketch while waiting for a pizza. I love how being an artist means you never really get bored...as long as you have some tools with which to create. Some Photoshop in this one later on.

[Chad Weatherford]

Quick one back in Abbotsford, BC.

[Chad Weatherford]

Abbotsford again. I really enjoyed this area of British Columbia

[Chad Weatherford]

Another self portrait in cinematic light.

[Enug]

I love your use of colours to depict light - especially like in Sep15 above

[D Akey]

So this is BC? Looks more like AD to me. Nice stuff.

They had a thing at one point -- a sort of road trip journal on CBS I think, Charles Curault (sp?) On the Road. And he would go around showing this little slice of America and that. People, roads, open stretches and so on. You got the vibe like a road trip. Now all you need is the front passenger side of the car on the floorboards with a set of ankles of your choice deep in fast food wrappers.

[Chad Weatherford]

I love your use of colours to depict light - especially like in Sep15 above

Thank you so much, June!

[Chad Weatherford]

So this is BC? Looks more like AD to me. Nice stuff.

They had a thing at one point -- a sort of road trip journal on CBS I think, Charles Curault (sp?) On the Road. And he would go around showing this little slice of America and that. People, roads, open stretches and so on. You got the vibe like a road trip. Now all you need is the front passenger side of the car on the floorboards with a set of ankles of your choice deep in fast food wrappers.

That would be an amazing thing to do actually, just paint my way through a road trip across the country!

[Chad Weatherford]

St Andrews church in downtown Vancouver.

[Chad Weatherford]

Three Amigos.

[Chad Weatherford]

Totem Pole near the Burrard Bridge in Vanier Park.

[Chad Weatherford]

Western sketch. This was fun. I’ve since lightened the sky a bit in this one, but this is the version I have available for now. Always tinkering...

[Chad Weatherford]

Another western theme...essentially a thumbnail sketch. I may paint this one in a bit more detail later on

[Chad Weatherford]

Lunchtime sketch

[Chad Weatherford]

From the boatyard on Granville Island. Some heavy editing here as there was a lot more to the scene.

[Chad Weatherford]

More Granville Island sketching

[Chad Weatherford]

Hope everyone is having a good holiday!

[misterpaint]

Chad Weatherford.. I love your art!!!!! incredible!! it reminds me of the works of the master Jeremy Mann, congratulation!! :o

[Chad Weatherford]

Chad Weatherford.. I love your art!!!!! incredible!! it reminds me of the works of the master Jeremy Mann, congratulation!! :o

Thank you very much! Definitely some influence on that first page I’d say.

[Chad Weatherford]

Lunchtime sketch of a work colleague...

[Chad Weatherford]

Sketched this one from the bus stop intitially, and finished it later. Included the initial block in as an example of a location sketch to a ‘finish’. With the initial marks I am trying to record the colours and general shapes quickly...which I can then refine as necessary from a photo ref. In this example I added a small amount of textured brushes in Photoshop as a finishing touch.

[Chad Weatherford]

Burrard Bridge in a mist of sea fog. Another location sketch included as a comparison. Sometimes I end up really liking the intitial blockin more than the finished sketch. When this happens I’ll back up a few stages if time allows, and marry the the two stages to get a compromise between the later version and the initial pass. This isn’t one one those circumstances, but it’s a temptation.

[Chad Weatherford]

Shannon Falls near Squamish, BC

[Chad Weatherford]

Early morning...somewhere near Squamish. Ended up camping in this location with an old wandering buddy and his pooch. Had a great time catching up on old times and eating omelettes along with a few obligatory dog hairs.

[Chad Weatherford]

Logging operation near Squamish, BC

[Chad Weatherford]

A number from the beginning of October. A few lunchtime sketches, a gas station from the bus stop, amd my daughter crashed out after a soccer game.

[Alexandra]

Outstanding! I join the others, such wonderful work!

[Chad Weatherford]

Outstanding! I join the others, such wonderful work!

Thank you kindly, Alexandra!

[Chad Weatherford]

A few more... self portrait needs some work in terms of the likeness. It always amazes me how a tiny error in a portrait can throw everything out of whack.

[Chad Weatherford]

A few from my time in Wellington, NZ

[Chad Weatherford]

If anyone is curious, I have a few timelapsed videos of paintings posted on Instagram.

Since I can’t embed a video here yet, here are some process pics of a barn I sketched in Abbotsford, British Columbia. This is an example of a more planned approach.

Stages:
1) basic value study on a toned bg. I tried to limit the values to 3 for a more clarified statement.
2) starting to block out colour, trying to stick to the values established in stage 1
3) continuing to add color and make decisions. The toned bg helps unify the colours but...
4) decided to dump the toned bg to enhance the texture and lighting effects.

[D Akey]

A few more... self portrait needs some work in terms of the likeness. It always amazes me how a tiny error in a portrait can throw everything out of whack.

Plus the client is always wanting to step all over the painting asking for change after change. . . ;) Surely you know the type.

[pai]

So nice you share the process of the barn painting. Will see if I can search your video on instagram. Also like a lot the self-portrait ones. Happy New Year to you :)

[Chad Weatherford]

Plus the client is always wanting to step all over the painting asking for change after change. . . ;) Surely you know the type.

Ah yes I do ;)

[Chad Weatherford]

So nice you share the process of the barn painting. Will see if I can search your video on instagram. Also like a lot the self-portrait ones. Happy New Year to you :)

Thank you Pai. Happy New Year to you as well! It seemed to drag and fly by at the same time...at least for me!

[Chad Weatherford]

Happy New Year! 2019 is upon us. Here’s a few more from October. I’ll wrap the series up soon!

[eighty+]

Chad You Make me feel like Jumping off Beachy Head :eek: :eek: :eek: D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D CIAO Ploos

[Chad Weatherford]

Chad You Make me feel like Jumping off Beachy Head :eek: :eek: :eek: D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D CIAO Ploos

Ploos, you must mean to swing along and paint those chalky walls!

[Chad Weatherford]

I don’t know why I never mass uploaded these before...it’s so much quicker than the one at a time approach I was using last year.

[eighty+]

Yeah Chad Job for life naff use a lot of White Emulsion though :o ;) :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D CIAO SLAINTE

[pai]

Awww, more beautiful painting. The autumn tree is delightful with that colour palette, especially we have snow and dark weather these few days. A question I would want to ask, do you upload all these paintings from your iPad or you use desktop compter to transfer files then upload here?

[D Akey]

Will be a shame to see this come to an end. Hopefully you will still keep painting these though. They actually look like fun to do. Certainly pleasurable and educational to look at as well.

[Chad Weatherford]

Yeah Chad Job for life naff use a lot of White Emulsion though :o ;) :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D CIAO SLAINTE

Hahahaha for sure

[Chad Weatherford]

Awww, more beautiful painting. The autumn tree is delightful with that colour palette, especially we have snow and dark weather these few days. A question I would want to ask, do you upload all these paintings from your iPad or you use desktop compter to transfer files then upload here?

Thank you for the compliment. As for uploading, I actually upload them from my iPad but process them on a desktop first, so they go to a desktop and back to the iPad before they get uploaded anywhere. In Photoshop I normally run a sharpen filter, touch them up here and there and add a bit of noise to prep them.

[Chad Weatherford]

Will be a shame to see this come to an end. Hopefully you will still keep painting these though. They actually look like fun to do. Certainly pleasurable and educational to look at as well.


They have been fun, but currently I feel I am just slogging to get through the self imposed quota so I can wrap up and do a post mordem. It’s been a marathon on top of full time work and a teaching gig, but super rewarding as well. I feel like I’ve learned heaps about my own shortcomings and strengths by just going through the process.

[Alexandra]

Chad, I hope that you are selling your beautiful work. I am not able to read all of the comments, so forgive me if I repeat anything. Thank you for sharing your talent with us. Awesome, awesome, awesome!

[Chad Weatherford]

Chad, I hope that you are selling your beautiful work. I am not able to read all of the comments, so forgive me if I repeat anything. Thank you for sharing your talent with us. Awesome, awesome, awesome!

Thank you very much! I haven’t tried to sell any of these works, but I’ll look into the possibility if they hold up in print.

[Chad Weatherford]

A couple more from October.

[Chad Weatherford]

Old smudge exercise. I was doing this quite a bit a few years ago....using ArtRage to smudge a photo with the palette knife and use the result to create something new.

[Chad Weatherford]

A couple space themed images that went between Photoshop and the ArtRage app.

[Chad Weatherford]

Some more sketches around Vancouver. The pillars were observed at Cathedral Place. That study was tough to deal with the perspective as well as the subtle hue shifts. Texture on the image edges of that study was added with Photoshop later.

[D Akey]

That's a pretty nifty trick with the smear as a reference. It's like making a blueprint. Is it something you like doing still? I'm guessing that one of the challenges is to find a good model to work from (in the case of space ships and stuff). I would think you can pretty much go to the stylization once you've done it a few times and with some mileage doing it you can translate it in your head just by looking. Believe it or not, that was a question, heh. Did you find that to be the case? I imagine it would be a good way to find a new style though. Pushing the model to find something new rather than just pushing the painting. Great idea.

[Chad Weatherford]

That's a pretty nifty trick with the smear as a reference. It's like making a blueprint. Is it something you like doing still? I'm guessing that one of the challenges is to find a good model to work from (in the case of space ships and stuff). I would think you can pretty much go to the stylization once you've done it a few times and with some mileage doing it you can translate it in your head just by looking. Believe it or not, that was a question, heh. Did you find that to be the case? I imagine it would be a good way to find a new style though. Pushing the model to find something new rather than just pushing the painting. Great idea.

Nah, I used to do this exercise a lot, but haven’t in quite a while. It was sort of a way to work where I didn’t really expect anything but generating abstract chaos I could use as inspiration to springboard ideas. The key for me is it wouldn’t be something I would necessarily come up with if I went about a design in a more linear fashion, so it became a more reactive process of discovery...almost like finding shapes in the clouds. In addition, I would get a lot of building blocks for free like value and a base color for instance. It was pretty fun, but most of the experiments wouldn’t go very far, especially if my decisions to make sense of the chaos destroyed the inherent abstraction I was attracted to in the first place.

That said, smearing industrial objects has proven a good way to come up with spaceships and robots for sure.

[Chad Weatherford]

Back to the southwest...

[pai]

Love that little girl with that white fur hoodie, she's so sweet. The bird man is very cool with that color contrast you selected. And your last few southwest mountains, love the view/perspective you have painted it out. I can feel I am standing there and look at them. Thanks so much for sharing your works :)

[Chad Weatherford]

Thank you so much, Pai. I’m very happy you like them.

[Chad Weatherford]

More from Arizona...the man is my dad, who is still addicted to the cube, and his dog who recently passed away. All are ArtRage except nov 11, which was actually started in Photoshop and finished with the mobile version of AR from a small image I came across in a google search.

[Chad Weatherford]

Wrapping up the last batch of Arizona paintings

[GRSArts]

Very nice. Love the colors!

[Alexandra]

Outstanding, each and every one of them, Chad. Such a pleasure!

[Chad Weatherford]

Very nice. Love the colors!

Thank you very much!

[Chad Weatherford]

A few more. The self portrait was done on the bus by working over my reflection from the iPad screen. A guy was squashed against me and asking all kinds of questions during the whole process.

[Kippiis]

Wow! Good job, keep it up!

[D Akey]

Still rocking those colors and that brushwork. Do you ever settle in and paint things like western subjects with horses and cowboys and such?

[Chad Weatherford]

Still rocking those colors and that brushwork. Do you ever settle in and paint things like western subjects with horses and cowboys and such?

Thanks D Akey. Only occasionally...but it’d be nice to do a deeper dig into the subject matter:D

[Chad Weatherford]

Continuing on with November...

[Chad Weatherford]

And finally into December...

[damasocl]

IMPRESIONANTE...!!!! Muy bien logrados como siempre!!! Felicitaciones...

[Chad Weatherford]

IMPRESIONANTE...!!!! Muy bien logrados como siempre!!! Felicitaciones...

Muchas Gracias, señor!

[Chad Weatherford]

Getting there...

[D Akey]

I particularly like that one of the one on the phone with the blue-jean hat. Really nice patchwork of color and marks. Great colors. Nice palette push toward the blues rather than the straight blonde hair. It still reads that complexion and hair through the surprises. Your virtuosity is really showing.

[Chad Weatherford]

I particularly like that one of the one on the phone with the blue-jean hat. Really nice patchwork of color and marks. Great colors. Nice palette push toward the blues rather than the straight blonde hair. It still reads that complexion and hair through the surprises. Your virtuosity is really showing.

Thanks D Akey. It was difficult in some ways to fight my instincts on that one, pushing too literal with the color interpretations. I started with a base of blues and greens so that helped tie it down.

[Chad Weatherford]

A few sketches from Cypress Mountain. I was really consciously focusing on keeping an element of the abstract in the compositions.

[TMUCW]

Woow, your paintings are amazing!!

[Alexandra]

I join the others in their enthusiasm. Outstanding, bravo!

[Akolten]

Great work Chad! I hope you do more sci-fi scenes, I really like them :)

[Chad Weatherford]

Woow, your paintings are amazing!!

Thank you very much!

[Chad Weatherford]

I join the others in their enthusiasm. Outstanding, bravo!

Aw thank you Alexandra!

[Chad Weatherford]

Great work Chad! I hope you do more sci-fi scenes, I really like them :)

Thank you! I know I can’t stay away from them so I’m sure there will be more. Maybe not in this particular thread come to think of it.

[DarkOwnt]

The cypress mountain works are sublime.

[Chad Weatherford]

The cypress mountain works are sublime.


I really enjoyed doing those, thank you!!

[Chad Weatherford]

Sorry to drag this thread on forever by not posting for weeks. Periodically when I go to upload, the forum tool stalls and I have to give up. Not that I’ve been razor sharp sticking to my own painting schedule :rolleyes:

[Chad Weatherford]

Just about wrapped up....

[D Akey]

Gotta love lighting and atmosphere for something to clarify voice coming from a painting. Almost like taking a temperature.

[damasocl]

Concuerdo con Mr. D Akey: la atmósfera que tú logras es extraordinaria... Felicitaciones!

[sabena]

Wow fantastic colection congratulation

[GRSArts]

Beautiful paintings.

[pai]

I think I really like to see this thread you created with all paintings posted together. I can keep looking at them and won't feel bored. Every time I look, I can find something new in your paintings. Love your recent ones. Beautiful lighting as always. :)

[Andre Desro]

Hi Chad,

You are really a master of Impressionism!!! I would love and I’m sure that everyone would love too to see a script or a video of how you work......we all want to learn to paint like you!!!! You are a great inspiration for us! Thanks for sharing your work!

Andre


Just about wrapped up....

[Andre Desro]

Hi Chad,

I would like to ask......did you stop painting? I cant wait to see more of your work! Let me know,

Thanks

Andre

[DarkOwnt]

This thread was such a treasure.

I miss Chad's posts and seeing his new work!

[Victor]

great colors

[melvinjoe]

Wow this is amazing !! i really got painting inspiration from this forum !!

[DarkOwnt]

Resurrecting an old but very good thread.