Call Me

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...

Captain Bruce Bishop

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...

Romantic Walk

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

Light is the Stairway to Heaven

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...

Drawing the figure

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...