February is a crazy art month for me! I have two shows opening some 1500 miles apart from one another. The show in Washington is at The Art Mine in Port ...
Read MoreI am enjoying working on some smaller panels at the moment; these are 9x12 oil paintings. The subject is direct from my birdfeeder; these are two of the feathered ...
Read MoreThe murder is complete! This is the piece I started 3 weeks ago; I had to tone down the value shifts a bit to pull it off but, in ...
Read MoreCheck out this little bastard! It was one of those paintings that painted itself. Some paintings seem to just flow like magic while others fight for it. My friend Ginny ...
Read MoreBwahahahaha! Murder on the Sound! Ok, so I'm inordinately pleased with my blog title. (Wasn't "Murder in Progress" a Goya painting?)Yes, I am in the process of painting a herd ...
Read MoreHere's a new technique for you. I wanted to work on a different underpainting technique in response to my new environment; basically I wanted to start with less chroma ...
Read MoreHere are some of my seascapes hanging at Port Townsend Gallery. It is always good to get the work out of the studio and into the public sphere; it ...
Read MoreI am so excited about this idea! Okay, so this is a diptych titled "We Begin to Remember." Usually when I use photo reference to create panoramic images, I take ...
Read MoreHello--and greetings from the Pacific Northwest! I needed a change of scenery so this summer I decided to move to the Olympic Peninsula of Washington. The water called me up ...
Read MoreDeconstruction of a painting... Beginning with the finished piece and working back through the process. Post-modernists should love this. This is a very emotional piece for me. When I began it ...
Read MoreI have had so much going on in the studio lately I have not been able to keep up with my computing! I'm posting a little encaustic work I did ...
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