Archive for November, 2009
Learning from the Masters – Study #2
Author’s note: The image above is not my original work. It was painted by me but as a study of an original piece by Clyde Aspevig for educational purposes only. The original work can be found here. After two failed attempts at creating something interesting at the easel today, I decided to slow down and revisit [...]
Zoe the Dog Graphite Drawing
Above is the beginning of an affectionate portrait of our dog Zoe. We rescued her about eight years ago when we found her tied up to a tree in a park sitting in the rain. No one was in sight and there were no calls when we advertisted in the paper that we had found [...]
Graphite Landscape Sketches
Since I can’t paint everyday, why not draw everyday? It really shouldn’t be that hard to find an hour a day to put some graphite to paper. What’s more, every professional artist I have talked to says it will ultimately help my painting. To get started, I picked up some Prismacolor woodless graphite pencils and [...]
Jay Moore Color Mixing Exercise
I received my new Mitchell Albala “Landscape Painting” book today from Amazon.com, which is hot off the press as of November 17th. I have not read the book yet but when I saw Jay Moore’s painting on the front cover, I thought, “Dang, I wish my colors looked that good.” Then I thought, what better [...]
Highlights from Jay Moore Large Canvas Demonstration
Unbelievable. I just spent three really great days at Jay Moore’s latest large canvas demonstration workshop in Parker, Colorado. Since I have collected several of Jay’s works and have an intense interest in improving my landscape painting skills, I thought the workshop would be a great opportunity to see a true professional artist at work and [...]
Boston’s Long Wharf and Old North End
Every time I stay Boston while on business, this beautiful city always reminds me that I need to come back for a longer visit. After flying in on Monday afternoon and having a great Italian dinner that evening, I got up at sunrise the next morning to snap a few pictures near my hotel. I [...]
ADNW photo selected for MSNBC’s “It’s a Snap!”
After an incredibly busy week of travel, I was thrilled to wake up this morning to find an email in my inbox from MSNBC letting me know that my recent photo entitled “Boy and Girl Against Carlsbad Sunset” was selected for last week’s travel photo contest. Although the photo did not win the voting contest, [...]
“Pikes Peak Sunrise” Oil Painting
Since I will be back to planes, trains and automobiles next week as I travel to Boston, New York and Baltimore, I wanted to complete a painting to keep some momentum going. The piece above is of the sunrise on Pikes Peak yesterday morning as viewed from my house. I feel very fortunate that I [...]