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....

It would be easier to be a lazy painter – but not as good!

by admin | Oct 2, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education, Still Life

As a painter a lot of my struggles are against myself. Painting takes a lot of discipline. It’s sometimes a bother worth being bothered for to adjust a painting, even after you think it is finished. This still life of the Pear in the Light I had photographed and...

Alpena Michigan’s at Art in The Loft – Painting Knife Workshop

by admin | Sep 28, 2012 | Education, Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air

I was in Alpena Michigan’s at Art in The Loft this past week instructing a painting knife workshop with a group of dedicated painters that embraced the new tool in the studio and out in plein air paintings. If you like light stations or lighthouses you will love...

Summary of past blog posts:

by admin | Sep 24, 2012 | Table of Contents

Trailer – Painting with Your Eyes Trailer – Painting with Your Eyes Shadowed Structures Shadowed Structures Facing the Light Facing the Light Limbs Limbs Old Stucture Old Stucture Took my painting Buddy with me today, Marcel. Took my painting Buddy with...

Trailer – Painting with Your Eyes

by admin | Sep 6, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education, plein air

PURCHASE – Painting with Your Eyes, Tips for the Plein Air Painter Urig will guide you through a process to help you become more in tune with your painting before you paint your first stroke. A step by step guide through questions that may add heightened...

Shadowed Structures

by admin | Aug 28, 2012 | concepts in painting, Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air

Shadowed Structures, 9 x 12, oil on panel It seems to me that there is a real benefit to staying with a location and paint for as many days as you can. A location can have much to offer. And if you can exploit it visually, it has much to yield in teaching us...