Visit New York City Art Museums & the Barnes Foundation This May 12 – May 16, 2011. A once in a lifetime opportunity!

by admin | Mar 18, 2011 | concepts in painting, Education, Historical Sites, online event

Travel with other artist coinsures to New York City in the roomy comfort of a charter bus. Stay in the prestigious Affinia Gardens Hotel just blocks away from the museums. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to see the Barnes collection, the best Impressionist...

Rural America

by admin | Mar 15, 2011 | Oil Paintings for Sale

It takes so long to find your way as a painter. I have heard a lifetime. Though I have enjoyed many accomplishments, I feel that I have just now taken my first big step in understanding myself and what I want to paint and how I want to paint it. I have heard that many...

Old Door

by admin | Mar 12, 2011 | Historical Sites, Oil Paintings for Sale

This door so impressed me on the old farmhouse in Russelville Ohio. I was not sure I would be able to capture all of the rustic nature of the old wood and weathered paint that was self-destructing and lifting itself from the wood it was attached to. The color changes...

Bodybuilders Pumping Up on Contest Day

by admin | Mar 7, 2011 | Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air, sport

Arnold Schwarzenegger noticed right away the 6 pack on Aydin Bigkiv in Urig’s painting, Bodybuilders Pumping Up on Contest Day at the 2011 Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus Ohio on Saturday afternoon. He said that he appreciate how it was captured in paint and...

Morning Glory

by admin | Mar 1, 2011 | Oil Paintings for Sale

I was out shooting reference for this painting and I saw this beautiful hill and the sweeping grass, I knew it would be perfect for the model to walk up the hill for a photo. After several tries I believe I captured something I would like to paint. But when I got into...

A mini-business plan for improving my paintings. Proactive steps for the painter #2

by admin | Feb 27, 2011 | concepts in painting, Education

See first post on this topic Since my last post of self-evaluation of my paintings, I have assembled these proactive steps to help myself move forward. No use beating your self up if it does not bring about some kind of improvement So this time I have taken a more...

Self evaluation, the life and pain of being an artist #1

by admin | Feb 23, 2011 | concepts in painting, Education

Don’t let your anxieties about certain parts of painting steer you away from what you can do. Change, fears, frustrations to accomplish what I want to accomplish are all the things that hamper me from moving forward. Sometimes I steer away from a direction because I...

Grandpa Urig’s Farm in Avon Ohio held so many memories for me as a kid

by admin | Feb 20, 2011 | Oil Paintings for Sale

Being at my Grandfathers farm was such an adventure when I was a child. My cousin Terry and I would explore everything we could find. Bursting out to take a long walk on those little legs of ours, covering as much of the fields as we could. It seemed like my...

Moonlit Night – Using Photoshop to help with your grey tones #2

by admin | Feb 17, 2011 | Oil Paintings for Sale

Continued from Part #1 I enjoyed the strongly beveled shapes that dramatized form. Softening and generalizing values to emphasize space I then concentrated on the head or face. To many paintings I have ruined by not giving proper attention to all the small detailed...

Moonlit Night – Using Photoshop to help with your grey tones #1

by admin | Feb 15, 2011 | concepts in painting, Oil Paintings for Sale, Uncategorized

This painting was taken from a photo I had taken that inspired me. I am including it in my Urban painting series and want to use this painting to explore the massing together of similar shapes and tones in a composition. It is amazing how few shapes and tones we need...