oosipoff – Oleg Osipoff

Working on-site

Printmaking

Back to printmaking in 2016-2017 through CCSF Fort Mason Center. Returning to intaglio or etching, and lino-cut and picking up where I left off 30 years ago.

17th Street Afternoon – Three plate intaglio

Agave Pines – Two plate intaglio

Baby Egret – Two color intaglio

Bush and Taylor Corner – Single color intaglio

Bush and Taylor Corner – Three plate intaglio

Winter Front – Two color intaglio

Land’s End #2 – Two color intaglio

Land’s End #1 – Two color intaglio

Mezcal Factory – Linoleum cut

Mother with Child – Linoleum cut

Oaxaca Diptych #1 – Etching, chine-collé

Oaxaca Diptych #2 – Etching

Spring Pond Foliage – Three plate intaglio

Simple Choice Farm – Etching

Big Basin Suite.

Plein-air painting – June and July 2015. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Santa Cruz County, CA.

Plein Air 2015

Best way to paint is to paint directly from life. Clears my head and frees up my hand. Outdoor discomforts are a small price.

From Mexico with Love

These drawings and paintings were inspired by and made during an artist residency in San Miguel deAllende during the fall of 2013.

Sizes vary in acrylic and pastel drawn artwork.

Simple Choice Farm Cactus Plant — Prickly Cactus – pastel on paper; 12×16″

Zen Garden - Reflection Pool — Reflection Pool – acrylic on canvas; 20×26″

Zen Cottage in Evening Light — Zen Cottage – acrylic on canvas; 20×26″

Zen Cottage Evening Glow — Zen Cottage Evening – pastel on paper; 22×30″

Wuthering Heights – pastel on paper; 12×16″

Meditation on Opuntia — Opuntia Cactus – acrylic on canvas; 12×12″

Harvest Tree card — Harvest Tree – pastel on paper; 22×30″

Beyond the Rock Wall – pastel on paper; 16×12″

Closest Neighbor - Blue Farm — Closest Neighbor – acrylic on canvas; 20×26″

Coriander Morning – pastel on paper; 12×16″

Newer Cityscapes 2011-2015

All oil on canvas in sizes ranging from 36″ to 12″ in vertical dimensions. Paintings are roughly proportional as pictured.

Early Morning Skyline — *Early Morning Bay View*

Low Tide - Shoreline Highway — *Low Tide – Shoreline Highway*

Painting Cityscapes 1999-2011

The city as a subject and inspiration for creative art.

Paintings sizes are roughly proportional as seen on this page

Excelsior view from Balboa Park — Balboa Park Muni Yard

Alley off O'Farrel Street — Alley off O’Farrel Street

Life Drawing – Figurative Art

Sampling of my Figurative drawings; 1999-2011.

Drawing the figure is one of the quickest ways to gain drawing proficiency, hand-eye coordination and develop a personal manner or style with a chosen media. Because models pose for short periods of time, the artist must learn to work rapidly to capture the “gesture” of the pose, while generating the structural form of the model’s figure. Highlights and shadows are essential components of structure and must be regarded to be equally important as the contour of the figure. Students need to learn to focus on this in drawing from the live model. The drawings on this post represent images made directly from a live model in under twenty minutes, however, some had been made during multiple poses. Drawings sizes are pictured roughly proportional with one another; the average size is 18×24″.

The drawings above are sketches made with graphite or pencil in ten minutes or less. The drawings below are made with charcoal in five minutes or less.

The drawings below have been made with charcoal and colored chalk from poses held for more than twenty minutes or multiple sessions.

Author: oosipoff

Shelter Series Paintings 2020