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Then, And Now (Part 5)
"Then, And Now" or "Then & Now" in the blog search feature, is an ongoing occasional series where themes of progression, time, and memory...
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Nov 8, 20232 min read
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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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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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Blood Rituals Review, Part 2
After completing the review of my recent gallery show that I mentioned in my last blog post, staff writer at tattoodo.com Ross Howerton...
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Dec 26, 20167 min read
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Anatomical Study from Cadavers
One major artistic discipline for which I have the least formal study is anatomy. I find the human figure and its underlying structures...
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Jun 16, 20162 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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Singularity
Here’s the recently completed work mentioned in my last blog post. Mankind’s increasingly intimate yet perilous relationship with...
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Apr 26, 20151 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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Notes & Advice 9
“If you wish to make certain your painting will succeed, a minimum of three things must come from you–and only you. The first thing is...
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Jul 15, 20142 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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9th International 2012-2013 ARC Salon Catalog
I’m very honored to be featured for the second straight year in the Art Renewal Center’s annual juried catalog! This year’s book features...
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Dec 26, 20131 min read
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Notes & Advice 6
I came across this quote today by a plein air pastel artist, and found it to be a perfect description for the process of realism...
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Nov 14, 20132 min read
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IGOR at 1261
I just shipped out my painting “Dying In America” to Gallery 1261 in Denver, for the 11th annual International Guild of Realism juried...
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Aug 13, 20131 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
Here’s my newest painting in The Apostasy series, in progress since early March and finally completed this week: The Transhumanist...
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May 5, 20131 min read
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Shenpa (Towards Healing)
My newest completed painting originated out of the photo shoots I conducted for my 2010 series Rebuilding. The image of extracted hook...
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May 1, 20133 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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