by admin | Aug 28, 2011 | Oil Paintings for Sale
Call me was a fun painting with lots of challenging opportunities. I had an original vision that I wanted to capture in paint. This thought was an ethereal image where foreground and background merged as one pattern with just enough detail in the facial area to...
by admin | Aug 25, 2011 | concepts in painting, Education
I have been working with different oil painting mediums lately with my oil paints. I did the entire series of rural paintings using Liquin, from Windsor Newton, a glazing and fast drying medium. I understand Gamblin, Galkyd Lite is an equal rival for the medium. You...
by admin | Aug 24, 2011 | Oil Paintings for Sale
It is not many days that you have the pleasure of running into a Sea Man, but on this unlikely day in August, at the Milford Ohio Paint Out I had such a day. I was told of a home that had a nautical flavor that was receptive to us visiting to make a painting for the...
by admin | Aug 22, 2011 | Oil Paintings for Sale
There was just something about this scene that made me want to paint it. Romantic Walk, 11 x 17 inches, oil on panel Purchase paintings here: https://www.darylurig.com/store.html © 2011 Daryl Urig
by admin | Aug 16, 2011 | concepts in painting
It has not been until recently that I have had much more success with my paintings and it has to do with a couple prime factors. I have heard that the more you go on with painting the more you see that the old stuff was not so great and start parting with the mishaps...
by admin | Aug 10, 2011 | Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air
I always enjoyed that song Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin. But maybe they had some parts wrong in their song. As an artist I would like to argue that light is understandably all God and that there is no darkness in it. So while viewing my garden as light danced...
by admin | Aug 3, 2011 | concepts in painting, Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air
It was very hot this last week in July on Hilton Head Island SC. But not so hot as to interrupt my enthusiasm to paint plein-air all the rich colors available in this area of the hemisphere. (Though maybe hot enough to have sense to paint early while there is some...
by admin | Aug 2, 2011 | concepts in painting, Education
It seems that this approach is a very good way to keep looking at the bigger picture without getting caught up with too much detail initially in a drawing. If you are struggling with this, than this approach may be for you. You are at all times relating to the whole...