James Gunter's Studio

20" x 20" Oil on Panel Here's a square painting for once. I kind of like the format, so I might just paint a few more of t...

8" x 6" Oil on Panel Two more recent portrait sketches from live models. Both were painted alla prima in oil in two and a hal...

9" x 12" Oil on Panel Well meaning people can sometimes cause problems. A friend of mine owned some oil paints from a while ...

8" x 6" Oil on Panel It's been either too cold (5° F) or way too wet to paint outdoors. Haven't been to any portrait s...

10" x 8" Oil on Panel Yesterday evening was the annual Christmas Party at Casey Child's studio, which was well attended. ...

8" x 6" Oil on Panel The portrait studies continue. May they always continue. That's how new things are learned and skills...

7" x 5" Oil on Panel I don't know if Albrecht Durer, Rembrandt, or John Singer Sargent ever got to paint a model whose hai...

11" x 14" Oil on Panel When I did this painting for Midway's plein air competition this year, I took some in-process photo...

12" x 12" Oil on Canvas Panel Last week Santa Claus modeled for us at  Casey Childs studio! For this oil sketch I used a thre...

12" x 9" Oil on Panel This is a painting I made at a local cemetery in October. The plan was to use it for a Halloween post on...

8" x 10" Oil on Panel Here's another experiment using a very limited palette. You can read the first post about a three co...

5" x 7" Oil on Panel It isn't shaping up to be much of a white Christmas around here, at least not here in the valley. The...

Probably what most people imagine a painter's palette to look like is an oval or kidney shaped thin board with a thumb hole in it. I ...