Transcript and Key Insights Creating successful paintings begins before the first brushstroke. Over my 15 years of nearly daily painting, I’ve developed a consistent approach that helps me get started effectively. The principles of making a good start remain consistent, regardless of the...
Transcript and Key Insights We’re still in 4×6 mode right now. I wouldn’t mind doing another 5 to 10 of these before moving on. When you get hooked into an idea, it can be very powerful, you can just let it carry you...
Transcript and Key Insights I painted this last week based on a photo I took back in 2012 during a trip to England. I’ve made several paintings from this reference over the years, all of them bigger than this one. Back then, I...
Transcript and Key Insights What I like to do with my painting is indicate the forms and features of the landscape that I might be painting. I work in a somewhat loose, fractured manner that is still highly indicative of the forms being...
Transcript and Key Insights I painted this a couple days ago, and I’m real happy with it. I want to tell you the whole story of this little painting. I had the basic reference image sitting around for months and months, and there...
Transcript and Key Insights Good morning. I’m doing a painting a day each four by six. I’m building up a good inventory of these little ones. This one’s quite interesting. The reference is beautiful. I’ve had it for ages. It was very low...
Transcript and Key Insights The difference between a painting that feels alive and one that feels flat often comes down to strategic color placement. You have your basic composition, your framework of the landscape, that’s absolutely critical. But you don’t need to constantly...
Transcript and Key Insights This is a riff on a painting by George Inness. I went through dozens and dozens of iterations of the reference to get here. I want to be able to give due to the inspiration for this image that...
Transcript and Key Insights This is a riff on a painting by George Inness called Early Autumn Montclair, which is probably my favorite painting of all time. It’s directly inspired by his painting, but it makes some very big divergences, namely it has...
Transcript and Key Insights While trees always have foliage, at least in spring and summer, many other landscape elements do as well. There’s a lot of overlap with trees here, but there’s a lot of other just random foliage in the landscape. Just...