Art help
Giving it all Away
I was recently asked “what did it take to get to that next level?” What? Rethink, reconsider, and recalculate that one! I’m here flailing around like a ship in a whirlpool. What “next level” are we talking about? Looking from within, it looks as though I’m just spinning my wheels in the same old spot.…
Read MoreGoing Green
I do not write advice or tips very often on painting, and probably for good reason. I’m just a beginner! Though not the sole reason, that is a good one. The other is I don’t really like advice, probably something I picked up along the way, but growing up I always knew that I knew…
Read MoreReturn to Sender
You my dear friend are now a part of history, very pointless and inconsequentiial piece of history, but nonetheless this is the first. This is my first ever “HOW TO” blog. Yay! What do you think about a “How to be an artist” blog? No way, too easy. That’s grab anything, stick it anywhere and call…
Read MoreA New Favorite
What do you like to hear when someone sees one of your paintings for the 1st time? “Thomas Kinkade move over”, “That looks just like a picture?” Okay, those are actually some of the things that are like nails on a blackboard. What I really like to hear is things that involve, “feel”, or “senses”…
Read MoreGive me 4 for the Road
I really don’t talk about my art much here, or how or why I create it. Not sure why, I just don’t know enough about it to be out trying to act like an authority on something. I try not to give advice, I find it better to speak of experience, and folks can take…
Read MoreDo You See What I See?
A star, a star, dancing in the night, with a tail as big as a kite. The holidays are about over for this season, just New Years and then Ground Hogs Day is coming up, but then we’ve got a bit of a break. I had hoped to take this holiday time to get a…
Read MoreLet’s try Art
It’s strange I don’t always blog about art here, so I thought I would give it a try, just for a change of pallets.Shall we keep it general, or go specific? Let’s go with my latest projects, this is taking “so-so” plein air studies and making large paintings from them. 1st off, let me say I…
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