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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 [...]
“Bishop’s Peak” Oil Painting
The lone intrusion of what would seem modern day was the road on which we would travel. A slice of lined asphalt that allowed passage through the perfectly sculpted hills and countryside north of Santa Barbara. After two days of sun drenched skies and atmosphere crisped by a lukewarm sea breeze, the weather was less [...]
Feel Like a Kid Again with iPad and Sketchbook Pro
While searching for new ways to get the most artistic bang for my buck from the iPad, I ran across an app for $7.99 that turns my magical device into an electronic sketchpad. The application is called Sketchbook Pro and it is brought to you by the fine folks over at Autodesk, also known as [...]