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February 2012 ADNW Painting Challenge
For February’s challenge photo, I chose my favorite bridge of all time. Of course it’s the Ponte Vecchio in the beautiful city of Florence, Italy. I took this photo when Donna and I visited Italy in 2009. Florence was our first stop. We also visited Siena and San Gimignano in Tuscany, the Cinque Terre, Vicenza [...]
January 2012 ADNW Painting Challenge
Here he is, our Grand Central reader. I took this photo a year ago last November while visiting New York on business. I loved his gesture and thought at the time how he would make a good challenge photo. You will have until January 31st to submit your work and, as always, I look forward [...]
November 2011 ADNW Painting Challenge
This one will be fun! This is a photo I took while visiting the beautiful Château d’Azay-le-Rideau in France. I am planning to enter a painting this month as well. My plan is to work on getting the draftsmanship right first. A bad drawing can ruin a perfectly good painting! Then it will just be [...]
October 2011 ADNW Painting Challenge
Since everyone liked the challenge from France last month, I have decided to offer another of my favorites from our time on the Île Saint-Louis in Paris. You will have until November 15th to submit your pieces. This month’s challenge is of an accordion street performer that I saw while doing some street photography near [...]
September 2011 ADNW Painting Challenge
Having just got back from France, I am going to start the challenge mid-month! To be fair, you will have until October 15th to submit your pieces. This month’s challenge is of a waitress in Paris. The profile of her face against the dark drape and light on her apron caught my attention as Donna [...]
July 2011 ADNW Painting Challenge
I am amazingly late this month. I’ve got the workin’ too much blues! I love this train. It runs up and down the tracks along the mountains near my home everyday. Last winter, my son and I went out for a quick photo fix and we decided to wait for the train to go by. [...]
June 2011 ADNW Painting Challenge
I love this picture! I am early because this month because I have wedding duty starting tomorrow and I was really excited to give you this photo to work on. I have left this one wide open for you by providing a big view for you to compose from. Ahhhh, the greens and purples and [...]
May 2011 ADNW Painting Challenge
Sorry I am late folks. I have a good excuse. My son is getting married in four weeks. It is a little crazy around here but alas I have an image for you to work on. As my wife was doing a walk through at the church where my son is getting married, I was…yep [...]
April 2011 ADNW Painting Challenge
Let’s do a portrait this month. I have had a coupe of request to paint Zoe since posting her photo a little while ago. I think this is a great challenge because of the narrow values you will have to deal with. Getting the relative values right will be the key to pulling this one [...]
March 2011 ADNW Painting Challenge
Let’s do a figure this month. Rumor has it that this gentleman has been playing in Central Park for years. I spent a few hours in the park in November shooting on the Mall and this shot is one of my favorites. I think this one can be fun with the complexities of the subject [...]