by admin | Nov 26, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education, plein air
You wanted to get started painting but did not know how. This book is for you. Plein Air painting is a perfect way to improve your painting and drawing skills. Everything is there before you in the scene you choose to paint. We don’t have to travel further than our...
by admin | Nov 19, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education
Every time I come to California it is like coming home. This Midwest boy enjoys the Californians even if they do come from as far away as Washington, Oregon, Canada and of course California for this workshop. It is just an extra fun time of exuberant art, life as an...
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...
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...
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....
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....