Painting Selected For Exhibition. Greetings! I am thrilled to say that my watercolor painting “Three Minute Egg #14 – Blue Espresso Cup” was juried into the California Watercolor Association’s (CWA) 51st National Exhibition. The Juror of Selection was Mr. Frank Webb. There were 650 entries and the Juror selected 97 paintings for the show. Congrats! […]
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Plunge, as in just go for it; dive in and give your all. Painting Is Like Taking A Plunge. Greetings! As I near the end of #30paintingsin30days challenge, I find myself thinking about painting and taking plunges. And, it all applies to a painting about stacked espresso cups. Conversation With Dad. What? To explain, I
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Cool blue; too much of a good thing? Day 20: Its Blue-ish! Greetings! Its day 20 of the #30paintingsin30days challenge. At the moment, I’m looking at today’s piece and its mainly blue. You see, I’m wondering, am I going through a “blue period”? It is February after all and here in southern Oregon, the days
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I have learned a thing or two, (or three or lots!) over the past 31 days of the #stradaeasel “Drawing and Painting From Life” Challenge. Update: there were about 500 artists participating in the challenge! What fun! I’d like to share my initial impressions of “lessons learned” for doing the challenge. Goal Accomplished! But
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About The Easel. Greetings! Only five days left in the Strada Easel January Challenge! This month seems to be flying by all of a sudden! Life became busy and next thing I know, its Day 26! Recently, I was asked the question “what makes a Strada Easel so special?” What an excellent question
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Its About Doing Studies. What I’d like to do with today’s article is talk to you about why I do studies. You might have noticed that I’m called my drawings and paintings for the Strada Easel challenge “studies”. I’m doing that for a reason: I’m studying! With this article, I’ll also be current in posting
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Add Lemon. Lemon and tea just go together like pepper and salt. So, on day 4 of Strada Easel’s challenge, I added a wedge to my tea bag still life. I rarely have a fresh one in the refrigerator, but today I did. So, it was inevitable that a wedge or slice would wind up
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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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Motivation – That Which Keeps Me Working. Hi! I have been wondering how personal motivation contributes to overcoming artist block. Put another way, I would like to examine what motivates me and keeps me plugging away at my art. By looking at what motivates me, both positive and not so positive, I might learn something about making art
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Yes, I’m a student. I think I will always be a student in the sense that one has something new to learn. I am also a student of artist Sarah F. Burns. I am learning about academic drawing and painting. Oddly enough, since the beginning of my life as an artist, I’ve been drawing from
