August 2010 ADNW Painting Challenge
I thought I had better get this month’s photo up because it is about to get crazy! I have a week of travel on the east coast, then I will be heading to Switzerland and Italy for fun and adventure with my beautiful bride. I won’t tell you where I will be heading next but [...]
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Adventures in Vacation Packing #3
This picture makes me happy. Here I am writing about the weight and size of this that and the other and I almost forgot to mention the most important thing to remember to take on vacation. A loyal travel companion. I don’t post a lot of personal pictures here but I mention Donna so much [...]
Adventures in Vacation Packing #2
Shoes are always a problem. They take up a ton of room and given the way we travel, one pair usually will not cut it. For some reason, I don’t like wearing shiny new running shoes on vacation. I feel like they say “tourist” almost as loudly as a Hawaiian print shirts and seer sucker [...]
Adventures in Vacation Packing #1
Call me crazy but I thought it would be fun to do a series on packing for overseas vacations. I am always amazed when I see huge bags being hauled around by tourists when I go on trips. I like to think of packing as a science. I even have Donna thinking this way and [...]
Tripping Out on Tripit!
Can’t tell I am getting excited can you? My evening project was to make sure all of my upcoming vacation trip details were at my fingertips. Traveling to new places can stressful enough without having to worry about things that are easily controllable. Our itinerary for Switzerland and Italy is a little complicated because we [...]
And July’s Apron Winner Is…
It is my honor to reveal that the random number generator has spoken once again and selected Horst Hittenberger as the July ADNW apron winner. Nice job Horst on your submissions over the past few months! I am thrilled that you will finally spare a few paint shirts by protecting them with your new ADNW [...]
Travel Photo- Grace Cathedral
A couple of months ago I was taking long walk around San Francisco with my camera and tripod in hand looking for something to capture. After hiking up a steep hill to the Nob Hill area, I saw a church that looked promising with the classic double towers on either side of the entrance. Kind [...]
“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 [...]
Carlsbad Sunrise
Not too much time to write tonight considering that I actually took the above shot at 6:30am this morning in California and landed in Denver at 6:30pm! I took a quick trip out to California this week and hoped to capture something nice before headed back home today. Monday and Tuesday did not work out [...]
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 [...]