Hi friends, In the last couple weeks I’ve had one person on Instagram steal a bunch of my images and put them on their IG wall as their own paintings and were catfishing people. And then I had a super creepy website steal one of the images off my website to sell cheap prints. It’s …
I have a collection of imperfect frames that I’ve collected over the last couple decades, and I’ve started the process of refreshing them to make lovely custom frames for a few pieces! I’ve started off with half a dozen frames that don’t look gorgeous on their faces, but have lots of potential to be floating …
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This painting celebrates the fall tree colors. It was based very loosely on a source photo I took close to home in South Dakota, and then became an abstract landscape. The paint was thickly applied with a palette knife. Since I was playing with so many fall colors right next to each other, I used a …
Some days I just want to paint right outside, close to lunch and a bathroom, not losing any travel time…. Here’s a close-up of the texture on this one. Dancing Clouds, 9×12″, oil on linen
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As part of my effort to go green, I’ve been planning to try to eliminate paper towels. Right now I use shop towels that come from Lowes in a box. I don’t use a tun of them – maybe an average of one per painting. But that doesn’t seem so green. So far I’ve tried …
I’m closer to being solvent-free. This painting was created with a wash of water-mixable oil underpainting and a straight tube paint on top… I’m going to be experimenting with more water mixable paint, and maybe some acrylic paint… Want to join the conversation? Comment below.
Today’s improvement was standing up. I started the sitting lifestyle when I got a job at Microsoft over 20 years ago. And then 15 years ago when I started this painting career, I kept on sitting for some reason… and so everything is set up for me to sit and changing it seemed like …
2023 is my year of getting green and healthy in the studio, and what is less green and healthy than a fire hazard? An artist just asked an important question in a workshop, and I thought it was important enough to share with you. “Can painting rags spontaneously catch fire?” Unfortunately, yes, if the rags …