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...
Everything in your painting is just shapes. A mountain isn’t an intimidating subject, it’s a large series of triangular shapes subdivided by smaller triangular-type shapes. That odd-looking tree is just a collection of organic shapes. Water, paths, skies, you can paint all of...
The painting I’m bringing you today is called Tutukaka Dawn. It’s a 5 by 10, and I painted this about a month ago. We’re working on HDF hardboard primed with three coats of house paint, and we’re doing our underpainting color with some...
Transcript and Key Insights This is basically a sky painting. The hills in the middle distance are from Tutukaka over there, so that’ll add some interest for those folks. We’re gonna do the drawing today and then I’ll come back tomorrow and do...
When I first started creating landscape paintings on the computer, back around 2005, 2006, I thought digital tools would solve everything. I had the undos, the infinite possibilities, the comfort of working without consequence. I’d been a commercial illustrator for 13 years, comfortable...
This week’s painting is called Woodland Passage, a 5×10 inch oil on panel. The genesis was simple: I caught some B-roll in a video, liked the pattern of the trees, got rid of the people and the buildings, and went to work. I...
Today we are painting a forest scene of a woodland with a path cutting through. This started as a screen capture I pulled recently. The original had some different elements, but the tree structure caught my attention. I ran it over to my...
There’s a paradox at the heart of painting that every serious artist eventually confronts: the pursuit of perfection will either propel you forward or paralyze you entirely. The difference hinges on a single concept, functioning perfectionism, and understanding it might be the most...