I was truly blessed in Norcross Georgia

by admin | Mar 3, 2013 | Education, Oil Paintings for Sale

I was truly blessed in Norcross Georgia, just outside of Atlanta. Staying with Jeannie and Dr. Bob Fortin (originally from California, you know I enjoy Californians), parents of retired pro football player Roman Fortin. Really nice people. The town of “Old” Norcross...

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....

Demo and Book Signing Sun City HHI, SC

by admin | Jan 26, 2013 | concepts in painting, Oil Paintings for Sale

It was a very large group of artists and spectators who came to by New Book Signing and Painting Demonstration in Bluffton South Carolina. My New book, “Plein Air Painting for Everyone” shows how easy it can become to paint out doors using a painting knife or...

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...