Pelicans Perch – 24 x 48 inches, based on plein air field studies

by admin | Nov 5, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education, plein air, Wildlife

Pelicans Perch is based on a number of experiences and field study paintings and sketches I have had here in the Carolina. Below is the final 24 x 48 inch wide oil on panel painting painted with exclusively painting knives. Plein air field studies and sketches below...

Plein Air in the Carolinas

by admin | Nov 2, 2012 | Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air

I enjoy plein air painting more each day. I had the privilege of painting in South Carolina. In Bluffton, Spring Island and the Spring Islands Tabby Ruins. The water and the climate make it a very enjoyable location to paint the field studies I am showing below. One...

Color and Contemporary Still Life – Seeing Color – Sun City, SC

by admin | Oct 29, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education, Still Life

It is fun to paint. But wouldn’t it be fun to see and paint the correct color? That is what this group of fine painters in Sun City South Carolina discovered at the Color and...

It bothers me when artist are so sure of himself or herself!

by admin | Oct 9, 2012 | concepts in painting, Oil Paintings for Sale

Trying to explain why this does not look like all my other paintings, I wrote this. It bothers me when artist are so sure of himself or herself! I see so many artists trying to say this is the way or that is the way. For sure, for the artist, there is no one-way....

Pear in Light 2

by admin | Oct 5, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education, Oil Paintings for Sale, Still Life

I am playing with lighting and the concept of contemporary still life. Below is my second pear painting. They make a pare. I wanted to move the eye around the painting with design and composition. Using overlap, values, lighting and color to create form and space....