The Tune-up
Each developing artist has the opportunity of determining the type of artist they wish to become. For some of us, this direction may be the
Field Notes
Traveling with wet oil paintings
When traveling, no other activity in painting brings me more excitement than taking my old pochade box outdoors in search of a new motif to
A Morning Ocean Study
This morning, Honolulu was greeted with overcast skies, so I immediately changed my painting plans to take advantage of the situation… because an overcast day
Thoughts on Rembrandt’s Drawing “Christ Walking on the Water”
As we wade into this topic, you should know that I love Rembrandt’s drawings and look at them often…for both pleasure and for learning purposes.
Portland Street Painting
This month I had the opportunity to get to the mainland, primarily on a family visit to Portland, Oregon. While there I spent a gloriously
John Carlson’s Theory of Angles and Consequent Values-A Model
“Every good picture is fundamentally an arrangement of three or four large masses-“ So begins Chapter 1 in my aged copy of “Elementary Principles of
Night Painting Over the Pacific, part 2
This pencil drawing, from my prior post, remains as a solid summary of what I’m after in my final piece. I’ve relied on it to
Make An Artist’s Plumb Line
For artists who draw with a plumb line regularly, here’s a nice addition to your box. The tools of drawing are pretty simple, but over
October Sun
I’ve just finished this new oil painting after many interruptions, mostly weather-related. But I managed to shoot some sequential images along the way, and I