You have to love Californians – Plein Air, Indian Canyons

by admin | Nov 11, 2012 | Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air

Plein Air Field Study, Andreas Canyon, CA, 9 x 12 oil with painting knife I sometimes wonder when I plein air paint if I am capturing what is right and believable. It is what I see and interpret, but do others see the same thing? On this glorious day in Indian...

Plein Air in the Carolinas

by admin | Nov 2, 2012 | Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air

I enjoy plein air painting more each day. I had the privilege of painting in South Carolina. In Bluffton, Spring Island and the Spring Islands Tabby Ruins. The water and the climate make it a very enjoyable location to paint the field studies I am showing below. One...

It bothers me when artist are so sure of himself or herself!

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....

Pear in Light 2

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....

Alpena Michigan’s at Art in The Loft – Painting Knife Workshop

by admin | Sep 28, 2012 | Education, Oil Paintings for Sale, plein air

I was in Alpena Michigan’s at Art in The Loft this past week instructing a painting knife workshop with a group of dedicated painters that embraced the new tool in the studio and out in plein air paintings. If you like light stations or lighthouses you will love...

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...