The CSI Approach to Painting

by | Oct 20, 2011 | concepts in painting, Education

Treating your next creative painting like a crime scene investigation may not be a bad idea. We may not have any fancy labs like on the TV shows, though many early oil painters where chemists and formulated there own paints. Some still do today. Most times my...

Quick answers to hard questions

by | Oct 7, 2011 | concepts in painting

Artists sometimes look for quick answers to hard questions and there are non. Painting is a life long endeavor of exploration, self study and experimenting with so many options available to us. Unfortunately learning everything about technique may be beneficial but it...

So why do artist enjoy painting the nudes?

by | Sep 30, 2011 | concepts in painting

I am guessing it is because this is the most perfect and valued thing God has created. It is us, and in His image and it is life. God created us without clothing (nude) and never meant us to ware any clothing from what I can tell. Clothing unrolled after the fall or...

Food for thought – a good painting practice

by | Sep 25, 2011 | concepts in painting

I like to parallel cooking and painting to drive through a concept that I think is very beneficial for creative’s. If I where going to create some great meal, having some knowledge of cooking, would I just reach into the refrigerator, herb cabinet, pantry or gather...

Giving your best & the frustration it causes

by | Sep 17, 2011 | concepts in painting

I am trying to live every day like it is my last. What that means to me is to give your best in every situation, so if by chance you die (my paintings would increase in value) that I would leave those around me with at least a last good impression. (No I don’t mean...