September 2010 ADNW Painting Challenge
Sorry so late this month but my life is nuts right now! I thought I would try to simply the challenge a little this month. I fear that the photos that I have been posting have been to tough to paint. Just let me know if I am off base here. Anyway, here is your [...]
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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 [...]
Foreign Film Pick – “The Lives of Others”
I can’t tell you how many people turn up their noses when I recommend foreign movies with subtitles. Guess what? There are tons of great film makers that don’t speak English! Donna and I have watched German, Polish, French, and Danish films. I also have Japanese, Taiwanese and Chinese films in my cabinet that are [...]
Hay at the End of the Day
Every July, they start cutting the grass out where I live and for some reason I find it hard to resist photographing freshly cut hay bales. So, at about seven this evening, I asked Donna if she wanted to take the dog for a walk to the end of our street. Knowing the sun would [...]
A quick note about affiliate advertisements
I just wanted to let everyone know that you may see from time to time some affiliate advertising from folks whose products I like. I spend a considerable amount of dough supporting this site and plan to use affiliate advertising to help fund the efforts at ADNW. I will only become an affiliate for products [...]
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 [...]
Helen Hunt Falls Photo
After tasting some wedding cake with my son and his fiancee today, I took a drive over to Helen Hunt Falls in Cheyenne Canyon to try and capture a photo featuring moving water. I used a .9 neutral density filter on top of a circular polarizer so I could really slow the shutter down despite [...]
