Peter Hobden's Painting Adventures

October 29, 2024

Postcard sized painting

for PostcardArtExhibit Texas 2024 (formerly TwitterArtExhibit)

Street, Night, Rain - Oil on card paper 13x 17 cm

Street, Night, Rain

April 4, 2024

February 18, 2019

March 14, 2014

Included in my website is a section where I include animated slide illustrations of my painting process.

I always try to take photographs as I advance in the painting. There are currently 17 sets of animated slides. I will add more as new ones are made and as I retrieve older ones from my photograph archives.

http://www.peterhobden.com/paintingprocess

October 2, 2013

A new web site

My current hosting provider for my web site seems to have disappeared into the landscape somewhere. I therefore decided to seek out other solutions. I do have a past in the IT world but I am not a big web developer. I do know a little html and css and am familiar with some programming languages.but it doesn't flow off the end of my fingers without effort. This meant that I had to find a solution that would offer me some assistance in building my site while keeping a good level of control on functionality and appearance.

I took out a good number of weeks from painting to research and finally chose and implemented a solution.

It turned out that I still had to learn quite a bit more than I hoped but it was fun in the end though it took quite a lot of my time and occasionally frazzled my nerves.

So here it is in all its glory. with a sections illustrating the painting process. featured paintings ...

May 5, 2013

Umbrellas - further on in painting process

The painting continues. First a couple of sessions with more spontaneity than precision, often a good way to start I find. Then raising the strength of the colors to bring out the effect of the sunlight and shade.

A bit more time, but not too much, on the two figures and it will be about finished.
See the finished painting on my web site PeterHobden.com

A detail, if you click to see larger it should be close to life size, to appreciate the brush strokes

May 1, 2013

Umbrellas in the Park

While I am waiting to finish the characters on "Rainy Day in Makati" , I started my next painting. No sure title for the time. I am calling it "Umbrellas in the Park" ; this time in the beating tropical sun.

I put down a Purple-ish blue under coat in acrylic because there will be a lot of yellowish green foliage. I like, if I can, to use an under coat that is somewhat complementary to the dominant colors on the final result.