Christian's Sketchblog

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Works in progress from early 2026. Playing with transparent layers of oil paint, simplification, working a bit bigger.

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Some more dancing figures generated while working on the commission.

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Woman With the Heavy Hips, 2026 Chalk pastel on paper. 16 x 10.5 in. Commissioned as a companion piece for Man With a Large Belly, 2022.

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Pointing, 2026 Oil on canvas board 10 x 8 in. $150 (plus shipping)

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Buzzing Glow, 2026 Oil on hardboard 10 x 8 in. $180 (plus shipping)

An experiment with pointillism and layering primaries. Attempting, in some way, to recreate my pointillist soft pastels with paint.

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Wisps Sizzling, 2026 Oil on canvas 12 x 8 in. (DMfor pricing) Continuing with a few themes. Tracings, and last year's Basking, Stretching, also explore expanding an area (in this case, the torso) to emphasize an aspect of the painting. I'm touching on the casual nakedness of Casual Titan, and shadows on the body in Tracings as well.

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Casual Titan, 2026 Oil on canvas 10 x 8 in. (DM for pricing)

I'm interested in painting people who are naked in a more casual, candid, or natural way, as opposed to formal figure study posing. I feel like it captures a more real moment. Here I'm trying to emphasize the solidity of the body, as well as a sense of glaring sun and heat.

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Tracings, 2026 Oil on canvas. 16 x 9 in. (DM for pricing)

Exploring paintings that combine the human body with elements of nature. Here, I've expanded the torso of the figure to create a large surface where the shadows of branches interplay with the form of the body. I finished this in December. In some sense, it acted as a kind of warmup, allowing me to build up my brushing and mixing skills on the way to larger, more involved paintings.

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Painted after Goya's Courtyard With Lunatics. Oil on canvas 10 x 8 in.

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A quick plein air diversion from last fall. Oil on wood panel 6 x 12 in.

$150 (plus shipping)

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Mermaid, 2025 Oil on canvas 10 x 8 in.

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Experimenting with some monochrome painting with a full range of saturation.

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Some figure painting practice from last year.

Oil on canvas. 8 x 10 in. $120 (plus shipping)

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Sketches from Elbow Lake this summer.

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Some preparatory studies that turned out well.

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Portrait studies contd. (In oil).

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Portrait studies contd. (in oil).

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Portrait studies from last May.