Just a reminder, my 1/2 price Holiday Sale is ending January 5th. There are more than 100 works available in my online store currently, starting as low as $50, free shipping! This is another study of clouds. I’m working on increasing the volume/weight of clouds, trying to render them much as you would a still … Read more
The holiday weeks are a great time for me to paint. It’s a time of reflection, hope, appreciation of friends/family, and just general “good feeling”. I need the right, positive mindset to paint–and I think it shows in my work. At least, it’s the right start. I painted this study in Ventura yesterday–it’s just a … Read more
I’m finally back! I’ve been visiting family in Southern California, and unfortunately, no WiFi was available to post. Time to catch up. This video demo shows a how I interpreted a Colorado sunset in paint. I took snapshots throughout the painting process and string them together in this video. There were many shots taken, so … Read more
Here’s another sunset painting (see 1, 2) done from reference photos taken while on my recent trip to Casa Cosmos (Mexico). Clouds are fun to paint, because they make flexible compositional devices. No one’s going to notice if a cloud is a slightly different shape, or in a different position, than the actual scene. But … Read more
Point Lobos has so much to offer artists, and I’ve painted it many times. This painting was done from a reference photo, if I recall correctly, from the area around Cypress Cove. Many artists have captured this awesome place, including classics by Percy Gray, F. Childe Hassam, Guy Rose (1, 2), and contemporary painters Kevin … Read more
In October I painted a couple of studies of the historic Palace of Fine Arts buildings built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, built just a few short years after the devastating 1906 San Francisco Great Earthquake and Fire. That exposition was instrumental as it introduced important art movements from around the world to American … Read more
Here’s a second painting of sunsets from Casa Cosmos. I wanted a bit more sky/light in this, and I found a great reference photo. Perhaps more to come… Casa Cosmos Sunset #2 – Oil on Linen – 11×14″ AVAILABLE IN MY STORE ($150)