Tag: landscape

  • Still Here

    Again, I seem to be lax in my posting. I have been busy however. I have another still life for my portfolio and I have moved on to landscapes. I visted New Mexico last spring and took lots of pictures. I noticed a theme in my photographs of “dead wood.” This has a meaning for…

  • 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…

  • Getting Better

    I often wonder if I actually get better at this. I rarely, if ever, paint the same thing twice, so it is difficult to tell whether or not my skills are improving. What I think I have gotten better at is “seeing.” Michael (my instructor), from the beginning said I needed to slow down, I…