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...

Took my painting Buddy with me today, Marcel.

by admin | Aug 23, 2012 | concepts in painting, Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air

Its always good to bring a friends when you plein air paint. But you don’t want someone who interrupts your artist-zone once you have begun painting. Marcel is a great painting buddy. Water, a leash to keep him safe and a few rubs on the tummy is all he needs....

Find a good place to paint plein air paint

by admin | Aug 22, 2012 | concepts in painting, Daily Painter, plein air

When you find a good place to paint plein air you want to continue to return to it. To discover all the vista will yield. I am particularly enjoying the play of colors on the structures. Painting from the shadow side gives a more interesting play of shapes. Lost but...

An eye opening experience – Ohio

by admin | Aug 15, 2012 | concepts in painting, Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air

Coming home from my National Tour and being able to paint plein air in the countryside of Harrison, Ohio has been an eye opening experience. Not sure if it was because of traveling and seeing all the different color pallets that happen around the country since...

Burn the learning exercises or dud paintings

by admin | Aug 13, 2012 | concepts in painting, Education

In my workshops it seems like almost a regular part of my artistic talk, or philosophy as one commented, is that when we learn we do not need to put undo pressure on ourselves. What I mean is, we don’t have to be perfect and we don’t need to necessarily get a painting...