Greetings! Yes, I’m tea bag-ging it for Day 2 of the #stradaeasel challenge. I think its too early to say anything profound about the challenge. Rather, I will just acknowledge day two and move on to the next. Nix Perfection. That being said, note to self: don’t get too picky about the details. Big […]
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Challenge Time. Hi! I’m joining in the #StradaEasel January 31 Day Challenge! The idea is to draw or paint from life every day then post the work to a personal facebook page. Then, at the end of the month, those artists who have completed the challenge are entered in a drawing for a Strada easel.
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Red and Green Challenge. Every year about Christmas time, I want to write a blog posting about dealing with the complementary colors of red and green in paintings. You see, I find it a challenge to create a painting using red and green. If I’m not careful, the resulting image will look like it ought
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Challenge Time. I have decided to try my hand in participating in a 31 day art challenge this upcoming January 2018. Strada Easel is hosting the challenge for artists. To explain, the idea is to draw or paint from life every day. Also, artists post their work along with the hashtag #stradaeasel to their facebook page.
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Introduction. Hi! I’d like to simply share a couple of watercolor studies. Why Do Studies. There are several reasons why I like doing these studies. Here are a few reasons that come immediately to mind. Focus: One has to pay attention when working with watercolor. The paint moves and I like to take advantage
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Still Life For Suzanne. Greetings! I’d like to share with you my latest still life painting: “Coffee Cup With Rabbit Netsuke”. The setup is a sort of homage to my sister Suzanne. She likes rabbits and she gave me the coffee cup. Yellow and red are her favorite colors. I don’t know about other
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Introduction: My Own Brand, or Modus Operandi Lately I’ve been thinking about “brand” as it relates to my own artistic style or modus operandi (MO). Why do I avoid defining my brand? Choices; there comes a time when we can’t do it all. I have come to realize that if I don’t focus on a
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Artist Vision: How To See. Greetings! I’d like to share with you two of my latests pieces in my “Three Minute Egg Series”. Furthermore, I’d like to talk about how I come up with my artistic vision for a series, using my current paintings as an example. The Good Question. A friend and collector of
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Potato Salad Friday – With Egg Hi and Good Friday To You! I was making a potato salad this morning, with hard-boiled egg, and was thinking about the paintings I’ve been doing lately with eggs and egg cups. What is so special about eggs? I don’t really like eating just plain old eggs, though I
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Lessons Learned From Gabriel Mark Lipper’s Deconstructing Class. For most of February and March of this year, I have participated in art instructor Gabriel Mark Lipper’s “Deconstructing a Painting” Class. Hmmm, I don’t recall if he actually had a title for the course. In any case, seems to me that we called it the deconstructing
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