10/23/22 - 10/29/22 I've been working in the background this week. Canvas grounds, values, technique, brushes, stuff... :) Canvas...

Get your values right and your painting will look great. Here is a bad example. An original photo, Samir's painting, and then my...

Other than dealing with the issue of used walnut oil rags and combustion... I pulled out some of my older paintings and compared it to...

Not great, but better than last week. I am following the artwork of Samir Godinjak. He lives in Bosnia and has many paintings on YouTube....

Jed Clampett said it right: Hills that is, swimming pools, movie stars... This is week #1 and there are so many to come. I am struggling...

Okay... This is the deal. Monet and van Gogh would adore her and her work. What's not to like? Bold, colorful, knowledgable, respected,...

* Update * Looking at my attempt below looks horrid now. Move along, nothing to see here! Andrew Pitt that is. Am I really catching up?...

This weeks painting is... Ho-hum. I decided to repaint this painting and did not include the sailboat. While creating a practice...

I took the last two weeks off while I thought things through... I want to paint like Peter and Karen. It's plain and simple as that. I...

Karen Margulis is my favorite pastel artist. She does "amazing" landscape work using pastels. She (most of the time) uses a watercolor...

Man, I wish I was in that sailboat! I agree with everything that Tim mentioned about my cathedral painting that he reviewed for me....

Here is the original I painted from, and mine is below. It is, what it is! The original artwork is by Edward Seago: "Approaching Storm"...

Are we in Germany? Italy? I'm not really sure. But, John Singer Sargent is so cool! I just got this book today via Amazon:...

Realism or Impressionism?

Gouache is cool! And, different. Dark. Goes on different. Handles different than watercolors, but... I am confused by it too. I cut my...

I have a love/hate relationship with the word "arsenal". Because it implies guns I scratch my head when the word is used this way. But...

I gave this painting to Joanne last night (Christmas Eve, far left) and I guess she liked it! That makes me extremely happy. She gave me...

I have finally gotten into a zone of painting again. Which is great, but not without days where I was failing miserably. A few days it...

Notice how the paint in the mixing area is very close to the paint that has dried on the paper on the left? The “value” of each is the...

Man, he liked saturated colors in his paintings. I did my best on this one below to capture what I think he did or intended the colors to...