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Summer Plein Air: Chasing The Light

Summer in Texas, where I live and work, is never the best outdoor painting time. Extreme heat and incredibly harsh, searing daylight add...

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Sep 9, 20233 min read

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Recent Painting Progressions

I love process in art–seeing it, knowing how things are made, reverse engineering them, speculatively forward-engineering them,...

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Mar 12, 20201 min read

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Soul

The inspiration for this painting came largely from oysters and their far more notorious contents: pearls. The pearl has been a symbol of...

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Dec 26, 20151 min read

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Transfiguration: Process

Here are some studio and process shots from the few months’ timespan of painting my latest large work in the Apostasy series:

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May 20, 20131 min read

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