Painter Will Noble on art, nature and water politics

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

My latest watercolor -- from a dream

Dream by Will Noble/watercolor on paper/ 38" x 24"

I had a dream a few years ago of a golden eagle carrying a tree to barren land. At the time I was so moved by the dream that I created a composite image of it in Photoshop and kept it on my studio wall.
A few months ago I finally felt I wanted to actually paint it.

There are quite a few firsts in this work for me. I have never before painted a bird. (I usually leave that to Barbara Banthien.) I have never used such washes for such large areas as this required. So this was a very different (and much shorter) experience for me.

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Carmel Cypress Ink Sketch

Carmel Cypress, ink drawing by Will Noble

I continue to enjoy this period of working in my sketchbook on pieces that take a few days rather than many months. This 9" x 12" ink sketch is of a cypress tree on the California coast around Carmel. -- Will

Friday, April 26, 2013

Completion, acceptance & small works

I recently finished work on the large pencil drawing titled Peggy's Pond, perhaps the most detailed piece I have ever done. The drawing alone took a year. It was just accepted in the Artworks Downtown Drawing show juried by Donna Seager and Suzanne Gray McSweeney of SeagerGray Gallery. The show will be up from May 24 to July 5. Public reception will be June 14, 5 – 8pm. I don't have a photo of this drawing either here on the blog or on my site yet, but I hope you will come to the show to see it!
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Before I get involved in another large project, I am enjoying working in my sketchbook, doing small pencil, ink and watercolor works. Below is one of them, a view from Kehoe Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore.

With an image size of 9" x 13" I was able to draw and paint it in a number of days, not months. This frees me to transition to other images and experiment with techniques.

Kehoe, a watercolor by Will Noble