Transcript and Key Insights This photo is from about 12 to 13 years ago, just a basic image of a field with a couple of trees in the background. On its own, it’s laughable. But I set it aside a few weeks back...
Style is something I think a lot of painters starting out really care about: developing your own style. You can do it, and you will do it, if you stick with it. I relate artistic style and influences very closely together. Style is...
You don’t need a bunch of different blues. You only need one blue, use your favorite. I like either phthalo blue or prussian blue. What I love about prussian blue is the history of it. It’s the first synthetic pigment made available to...
Transcript & Key Insights I’m working on a 5×10 today, and I want to keep it loose and impressionistic. The goal is that daylight, fresh morning quality without getting bogged down in detail. I’ve done this many times, but I want it to...
The Sky: Blue With Intention The sky presents itself in layers of possibility. Blue at the top, lighter as it descends, this is your starting point, not your destination. As painters, we amplify what’s there. That predominant blue you see isn’t static. It’s...
The painting I’m bringing you today is called Where Shadows Meet Light. It’s a 7×12, and I painted this last week. The Foundation: Board Prep We’re working on hardboard primed with several coats of house paint and some transparent gesso. One of the...
Transcription & Key Insights This is a row of trees with a little path coming through. One, two, three, four trees here, then one, two, three, four trees there. There’s a bunch of masses I’m gonna have to pull off, and one tree...
Emotion is the Container Unlike working with the human figure where emotion can be portrayed by a pose or facial expression, landscape art relies on more subtle ways of imparting emotional content. I’m all about painting emotions. That’s my thing. People think I’m...
Good morning. I did a painting yesterday, not the most terrible thing I’ve ever done, but it wasn’t the easiest struggle either. It was a 7×12 based on a reference from 2022 that I’d painted before on texture board and gave to my...
Today I’m bringing you Whisper of the Forest, an 8 by 12 inch painting I completed last week. The Story of Redemption This is a story of redemption. I painted this scene before in 2022 on textured board, and I was super happy...
