Category: Painting

  • Portfolio

    It has once again been awhile since I have posted anything here. I have been working on my portfolio and now have finished the 2nd painting for it. My instructor is wanting me to work on several projects for a more official portfolio. My first project was a landscape that I really enjoyed doing. It…

  • Loving landscapes and flowers

    Well, I have completed the conservatory painting. I have an image for this post but I’m not sure it does it justice. It really is amazing what a photograph will capture vs what the eye sees. Anyway, I have found that doing landscapes is much more enjoyable, in some ways, than doing portraits but I…

  • Process vs Content

    It has been too long since I have made a post here. I have been working on a portrait but it is much more difficult than expected. Michael always says not to think of it as a face but as shapes with lights and darks. This has made me think about the idea of process…

  • First Draft

    It has been a busy few weeks for me and I haven’t gotten back to this. One of the things that I noticed as I showed a piece for the first time at an art show and auction was that people called me an artist. For some reason that feels uncomfortable to me. “Artist” means…

  • Start to Finish

    I usually work from photographs. The photographs are typically ones that I have taken, but sometimes others will send me a picture that really strikes me so I ask permission to paint it. The interesting things about photographs is that they show more than the eye actually sees, so the trick for the artist is…