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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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Notes & Advice 12: What To Consider When Setting Up A Still Life
Discussing some of the subtler points of still life setup with Jake Meeks of Fireside Tattoo Network and Podcast. Part of my alla prima...
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Apr 5, 20201 min read
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My 20-Step Program for Perfect Art Reproductions
If you’re a painter or visual artist working in any traditional media, capturing digital images of your work is practically a requirement...
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Mar 12, 20206 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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On The Benefits of Drawing
About 10 years ago I leveled up my artistic practice in all areas after discovering the classical atelier system of art education. Before...
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Nov 1, 20192 min read
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Blood Rituals: Redux
Photoshoots for last year’s Blood Rituals series of still life paintings yielded several interesting macros which did not fit the...
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May 7, 20171 min read
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In The Studio 5: Reworking Plein Air Landscapes
Something I’ve never been a fan of doing is revisiting older paintings after some time has passed. The process of reconstructing or even...
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Jan 27, 20172 min read
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Notes & Advice 11
The popular text message shorthand TMI, as most of us growing up in the cell phone era know, means “too much information.” Normally not a...
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Mar 3, 20162 min read
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In The Studio 4
After an awkward and disconcerting hiatus from regular painting while my new studio space was being built and furnished, I’ve been...
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Feb 24, 20151 min read
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Shenpa II
Here’s a process sequence for a tiny diptych painting I did a few months ago related to the recurring theme in my work of healing wounds....
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Feb 11, 20141 min read
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Painting Gallery Updates!
One of my smaller New Year’s resolutions was to update this website with all of the paintings I’ve done over the past two years. Well,...
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Feb 2, 20142 min read
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Invocation Of Trust
Here’s a recent piece I completed for submission to an upcoming charity art exhibit at The Egan Gallery in Fullerton, California, curated...
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Aug 1, 20132 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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Grasping
I unearthed this old thumbnail sketch recently while searching for some reference photos in an impossibly overstuffed manila folder, a...
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Jan 9, 20131 min read
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Glorification
My latest installment in The Apostasy series, and the last for 2012, is now complete. Four times as big as the next smallest piece in...
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Dec 31, 20121 min read
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In Review: Union of Art and Sport
The Rules of Basketball: Works by Paul Pfeiffer and James Naismith’s “Original Rules of Basket Ball” September 16 – January 13, 2013...
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Nov 15, 20123 min read
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Passion
In between paintings of my ongoing surgical theme (The Apostasy), I’ve been searching for little sparks of inspiration for my next series...
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Sep 24, 20121 min read
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Realism Techniques 7
I finished painting #12 in the Apostasy series, now tentatively titled Sacrificial, a few days before my recent galavant to Galapagos....
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Aug 26, 20122 min read
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Realism Techniques 6
After a few experimental forays I returned to the studio recently to continue work on The Apostasy series, which has been my major...
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Jul 21, 20122 min read
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Realism Techniques 4.5
Here’s the followup and conclusion to my earlier post featuring a texture experiment with some new subject matter. The results are now...
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Jul 3, 20121 min read
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