If you receive this in your email and want to see the photos, click on the title. My friend Carrie Lewis is fully immersed in colored pencil. At the end of December, she put out a call to artists for their best colored pencil work from 2023. I realized that I had done none all […]
Painting Fruit Instead of the Golden Gate Bridge
I had a few unexpected hours available to paint and decided to not waste that time doing something useless like weeding or vacuuming or painting the Golden Gate Bridge (just your basic endless repetitive chore). I worked on the commissioned oil painting, 6×18″ for my friend/customer to fit between 2 other fruit paintings in her […]
Feeling Fruity Around Here
Feeling fruity around here lately. A month or 2 ago, I painted this to decorate a banquet for a citrus marketing outfit. A friend who has bought more of my paintings than anyone else saw this. She said, “If it doesn’t sell at the event, I want it!” I took the painting to her, and […]
Perfect Fall Day in Three Rivers
Thanksgiving was a perfect fall day in Three Rivers. We went for a walk to take in the clear air and last hurrah of autumn colors. Finally, a reminder for you (and for me, since I don’t get to keep endlessly lollygagging around). Besides, you might like going to Exeter tonight, to their annual city-wide […]
Finishing a Plein Air Drawing
New Cards
Primarily Speaking
The primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. I paint with 2 versions of each of these three colors plus white. Some say white is the absence of color, some say it is the sum of all color, some claim it is not a color. Doesn’t matter – it is impossible to mix colors without […]