All "Fine Art and Painting" Features
HD Video Postcard from Santa Monica Beach
While I was in Santa Monica last summer, I shot some HD video with my Canon 5D Mark II DSLR. Since I needed an excuse to start learning Adobe After Effects I thought I would create a short video postcard for you featuring some of the footage from my three-hour stint on the beach. The [...]
Build a Canvas Floater Frame for your Masterpiece
My friend Janell in Minneapolis contacted me recently to see if she could acquire one of my pictures to commemorate her anniversary trip to Venice. She wanted me to surprise her so I ended up preparing an 11×14 print on stretched canvas of one of my favorite Venice gondola shots. To round out the presentation, [...]
Horst Hittenberger wins first place at the County Fair with ADNW challenge painting
I wanted to extend warm congratulations to Horst Hittenberger for winning first place at the Lane County Fair with his ADNW challenge painting of the San Francisco street car. I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to see Horst with that big blue ribbon on his painting! Fine work there Horst and I am [...]
“Hay at the End of the Day” Oil Painting
Hope you are are having a great start to the weekend! Above is the final of “Hay and the End of the Day.” All I really needed to do was work the foreground. Frankly, it was a an experiment. I first laid in dominant tones with oils thinned with odorless mineral spirits. I then proceeded [...]
Hay Painting – Session #1
Above is the result of my first painting session on the hay bales landscape. It took about three hours. I decided that the first step would be to lay in the sky in so I could work the trees into it while everything was wet. I used a ton of colors in the sky and [...]
Hay Painting Sketch – With Help from Photoshop
In this post, I thought I would make an effort to show my process for setting up a painting. This is by no means the only way – just my way. I first start by generating the image I want to use as a photo reference. Working in Photoshop, I then size the image to [...]
Santa Barbara Barn Oil Painting
Photography one day and painting the next. All the makings for a perfect weekend! I will admit that today’s painting was inspired by Perry Brown. Perry has painted some great pictures with old barns in them and when I saw this one off of Highway 101 near the Santa Barbara wine country, I thought of [...]
Michelangelo Highlights – Was he telling a story?
Before breaking out the brushes for my weekend painting project, I want to share a bit of information I gleaned while reading about the Florentine painters of the Renaissance. When I know I will be sitting on airplanes, I like to plan beforehand how I am going to make the best use of my time. [...]
Meet Martyn Chamberlin
I have been looking to add a few ADNW guest writers on occasion and I am fortunate to have a contribution from a young painter named Martyn Chamberlin. He is is quite ambitious and definitely passionate about painting. He studies and paints with purpose and has a unique maturity for art at his age. I [...]
The Importance of Painting En Plein Air
By contributing author, Martyn Chamberlin If you think about it, there are three ways painters can come up with subject matter. They can make it up, they can use photographs, or they can paint from life. I don’t recommend the first approach unless you’re quite experienced, for it’s difficult creating a convincing composition and color [...]