I have enjoyed my time in the South

by admin | Apr 9, 2013 | Abstract, Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air

I have enjoyed my time in the South putting on workshops, attending events on Hilton Head Island and Georgia, exhibiting my work in Sea Pines and at Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, Walter Greer Gallery, painting with my new friends of the Low Country Plein Air...

Woman on Beach

by admin | Feb 14, 2013 | Abstract, Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air

It can be a lot of fun to explore the possibilities of a painting. This one stared with having a willing model to pose for me on a beach. In the cool gust of winds I failed to hold down my easel and paints while the model with now cold feet stood in the cold water in...

New Smyrna Florida in January is so welcoming.

by admin | Feb 4, 2013 | Abstract, concepts in painting, Education, Oil Paintings for Sale

If you don’t like the cold weather and you want to get away, New Smyrna Florida is the place to go in January. The warm weather and kindly atmosphere of the Artist’s Workshop art center their will surely warm you up. I stayed at the Night Swan Bed and Breakfast....

I found Paul Cézanne’s mountain

by admin | Jan 21, 2013 | Abstract, Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air

Considered the father of impressionism and father of cubism. For me he is the father of plein air painting. Directing us in one thought, to uncover the riches before us. See Cézanne went to his back yard to paint almost every day. From his large back yard his main...

Naming your painting?

by admin | Jan 10, 2013 | Abstract, concepts in painting, Oil Paintings for Sale

It has never been one of my strongest qualities. But then again it may have never been many artists’ best traits. We are visual people and words cannot define what we do. I have seen famous artists name their paintings with vague titles. Or is it that the name...

Hangin’ by the dock

by admin | Jun 5, 2012 | Abstract, concepts in painting, Education, Oil Paintings for Sale

We had a lively fun group at the Cincinnati Art Club in Cincinnati Ohio this past weekend. It was the get out of the box workshop, painting with painting knives in a studio set up. We painted from photos emphasizing the importance of doing a rough preliminary painting...