December 26, 2014

Snow on the Ground!

If you want to learn to paint quick and loose...paint in the snow!!

December 21, 2014

December 15, 2014

December 08, 2014

December 01, 2014

November 24, 2014

November 17, 2014

November 12, 2014

November 03, 2014

October 31, 2014

Day After



















It was the day after Halloween but the weather and landscape held onto the spooky mood.

October 27, 2014

October 20, 2014

October 11, 2014

September 27, 2014

September 23, 2014

September 15, 2014

September 04, 2014

Poor Man's Impressionism

I call this overlapping dry brush approach "poor man's impressionism". The images are taken from one of my online lectures at schoolism.com. My classes are: Designing with Color and Light and Environment Design. We're currently holding our Fall sale with $100 off each self taught course until September 30th.

September 02, 2014

August 30, 2014

August 25, 2014

Evening Hills Thumbnail



















Here's the kit I was using:

August 22, 2014

Damselfly






















Not from life this time, this is practice from photo reference to keep my gouache chops up and for fun!

August 18, 2014

August 14, 2014

Get outside and paint some watercolors!

Can't manage to get out and sketch in watercolor? James Gurney will take you the distance.

Buy his DVD here, buy his download here.


August 11, 2014

Ink Sketchbook






























































Studies of the great Richard Schmid Landscape paintings.

August 04, 2014

July 28, 2014

July 21, 2014

July 14, 2014

July 07, 2014

June 23, 2014

Sunflowers






























Ink on paper.

June 19, 2014

June 09, 2014

June 02, 2014

May 27, 2014

Evening Lake




















A good exercise: land sketch in less than 20 strokes.

May 19, 2014

May 12, 2014

April 28, 2014

April 21, 2014

April 14, 2014

April 01, 2014

March 24, 2014

March 10, 2014