Hello fellow artists and Steemians, Shipping a painting can be an intimidating, nerve-wracking, and expensive process for artists. Hopefully I can make this task a little less opaque for some of you. I

Hello Steemians, New painting: An extremely rare portrait commission. Rare because the constraints of a commission can potentially be in conflict with the creative freedom I require to produce my best

Greetings Steemians and Artists, detail New still life painting. Here is the setup. My initial visual concept is to play equal parts warm (candle) and cool (glasses with partially evaporated

Greetings, It's been a little while. Today's post is about my newest painting. detail Here is setup: To explain the messy/amorphous first stage below: I had a technical idea here that I wanted to explore

Greetings Steemians and Artists, This painting remains a personal favorite. There is no greater thrill to me (in painting) than transcending (or attempting to transcend) the limitations of "reality".

Greetings Steemians, "I think of composition as the final frontier in painting. An infinite area of discovery. For this reason, I don't put stock in any "rules" of composition. Rules are

Greetings, The following is a recap from a trip out to Jack Richeson Gallery & School in Wisconsin to teach one of my Still Life Painting/Composition workshops (this one in 2015). Just recently (due

Greetings, A few years ago I made this pair of 6x6in paintings for a miniatures show. Painting tiny figures is an interesting challenge. In the detail shot below, the hand's width across the knuckles is

Greetings Steemians and Artists, New painting! Just finished yesterday. It took far longer than anticipated (especially for such a small size), but that's how it goes sometimes. As a result, I got plenty

Greetings Steemians and Artists, Staring at still life objects as much as I do, it's hard to avoid some contemplation about the incredibly transient nature of the world of objects (not to mention the material

Greetings Steemians and Artists, Over the years I've found that in order to sustain momentum in my practice, I need to force myself into a state of constant learning. It's what makes this creativity thing

Greetings Steemians and Artists, I just finished this new still life. It was painted completely from imagination, which is an interesting challenge. It really makes me think about what I do or don't know--or

Greetings Steemians and Artists, I just finished a new miniature painting. These smaller ones tend to go quickly, which is a nice shift from the larger pieces. detail Here's the setup. In reality, not

Greetings Steemians and Artists, Painting a still life such as this is feels like coming home. Back to basics. I've said it before, but I will never tire of painting still life. Within simple objects there

Greetings Steemians and Artists, Aaaaaah...finally finished. These excellent models (Fox and Tim) have inspired several dual-figure paintings. For obvious reasons, these paintings usually take longer to

Greetings, Here are some work-in-progress details from 2 current paintings. During the past 8 months I've been adapting to my new role as a stay-at-home-dad (after four years as SAHM, my wife went back

Greetings, This painting began as a demonstration for students during one of my Still Life Composition & Painting workshops. It showed promise, so I refined it after the workshop. detail Here is the

Greetings Steemians, This was a tighter painting. Once in a while it happens, like when I painted "Cocoon". Tightness is relative, and I still don't go anywhere near as tight as many painters...So

Good Morning, The painting post for today illustrates a case of pushing my initial concept further and further until it finally worked. detail The setup: My concept is to make the dark mouth of the pitcher