Good Morning Artists/Steemians, In painting, still life was my first love, and it will probably always be my bread-and-butter. I love it for many reasons: the logistics are simple, there are no time limits

G'morning. My wife's water broke when I was making the first sketches shown in this post. I got the phone call while sitting in the sunshine on our deck in September 2013, researching and drawing insects.

Good morning Artists and Steemians, Have a game-plan. I want to show you my thought process before I even pick up the brush (or knife). detail Here is the physical setup. Composition game-plan: The red

Good morning Steemians and Artists, Today I'm showing you the painting that started my obsession with foil. detail Here is the physical setup: Here is the beginning stage. A block-in with umber (on a very

Good morning, A new still life painting. Here is the closeup because, well, a good thumbnail seems important here :). Here is the setup in my studio and the start of the painting. I love my freshly painted

Greetings Steemians, In addition to recent works, I'll also be posting paintings from the early years of my painting career. This miniature was from 2011, but it feels like an eternity ago. The one thing

Good morning. Here is a tiny still life painting I made last year. "Resistance" (6x6 oil on panel) Here is the physical setup below. This black skull was a one-off experiment from the replica

Another one for this morning. I picked up this old floodlight at a flea market in Paris. It was just begging to be painted. This was the second time I used it in a still life (I'll share the first painting

"Brew" (12x9 oil on panel) Here was the physical setup for this painting. The patina on this pot is awesome: First stage. No drawing/block in. Straight to knife. Yep, living on the edge. (I don't

"Wizened Creamer" (9x12 oil on panel) Here is a photo of the setup for this still life: First stage. Umber block in of shapes of darks/shadows: While the block in was painted using a brush, the