by jamesnaughton | Oct 31, 2013 | Naughton and Moran, Studio Phase Diary
Mountains or Molehills It’s strange how the passage of a day or so can bring clarity to what seems like a conflict demanding an immediate solution. I can see now that there is no conflict, I’ve just been giving myself different opportunities, trying a few...
by jamesnaughton | Oct 13, 2013 | Naughton and Moran, Studio Phase Diary
Peaks and Troughs Moving into the final stages of the Teton work a number of experiments have jarred whilst I am painting them. It’s almost as if they could be someone’s else’s paintings. I realise, in some, I am trying too deliberately to depict the...
by jamesnaughton | Oct 13, 2013 | Naughton and Moran, Studio Phase Diary
Animal Magic I have the feeling that we were very lucky with our experiences of wildlife on the trip. We got very close to a moose, close enough to both brown and black bears but not as close as we’d like to a ghostly white wolf. These sightings were usually...
by jamesnaughton | Oct 6, 2013 | Naughton and Moran, Studio Phase Diary
Moving On Up I get the feeling that it’s time to move up in scale from the Teton Sketch paintings. In these larger works I try a few different approaches, each starting with a slightly different intention. In some of the paintings working directly from...
by jamesnaughton | Oct 5, 2013 | Naughton and Moran, Studio Phase Diary
Water baby Over the next few days I’ve continued with the small studies, as well as a few water colours at a similar scale. The challenge for me is to use watercolour in a way which stems more naturally from the way I paint, rather than feeling tempted to adopt...
