Latest Oil Portrait
I think I’m done with this one–let me know what you think . . . the shadow on the top is from the easel.
A quick sketch of a Sunday School teacher
Sketching from life has innumerable benefits to any artist, but I think the foremost is sharpening observation skills. While I am constantly sketching in my mind, actually putting in on paper can be both a frustrating and rewarding exercise. I enjoy sketching at Church. Putting both my thoughts and observations down on paper keeps my [...]
The Fourth Day
What did our world look like during Creation? Being extremely visual in nature, I find myself often wondering what an event looks like. I really didn’t mean to start a creation painting series, like many of my paintings and events in my life, it just happened-took a life of its own. My reference was a [...]
If you can’t paint, paint big!
(larger image below) I’ve wanted to do this painting since 2006 when I took the reference photo. We had a spectacular fall that year, and I was going to name the painting “Look up”. I love painting trees. They allow me to loosen up between the more serious portraits and give room for quite a bit of [...]
Athena
Yeah!!! I finished Athena. I think she is finally to the point that you can’t see the damage from baggage claim. Sometimes stuff happens for a reason. I don’t think I would have continued to work on this painting if it hadn’t been damaged. But I am happier with the re-worked painting than I was [...]
Insecure
I get the strangest reactions to this painting! In general, men tend to avoid it, or joke about it. Women coo and smile and relate experiences of their own children and siblings forever captured in similar “blackmail” photographs. Children stand and gawk at it. I completed the painting (the first time) during the Alaska State [...]
Nomad
I decided to take a break from the mother and son commission. I’ve scraped it so many times, that I’ve lost count and thought I had a good under-painting until I looked at it the next day. I’m contemplating throwing it out and starting over on a different pose-we’ll see. So I finished up “Nomad” [...]