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Is an Academic Degree really necessary for a real painter?
Looking back through the years, I do not remember when I started painting with oils and watercolors… maybe I was about 13. To be honest mostly of I know today has come from my own experiences of try...
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Painting Expedition and Road Trip
I’m on the road with Jer, working on painting scenes from many tiny hamlets in the high desert of eastern Oregon. We started on Monday, it is now Thursday, and I have eight 12 x 16″ plein air oil...
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Painting from Photographs, Necessity and Nostalgia
Pine Creek Gorge, photo from Wikipedia Commons, Commons licensing I have been violating one of my basic principles. I have, gasp, been painting from photographs. Pine Creek Gorge 2, 12 x 16″ Oil on...
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Texture, the Internet, and Other Conundrums
I have just joined Facebook (thanks, D.) and of course, instantly found a group dedicated to a textile artist’s focus: namely, texture. The photos of “texture” on the group site were close-ups, both of...
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Unfinished
What came to mind is ‘das Unvollendigte’, translated into English as ‘the Unfinished’. Below are three paintings that I worked on off and on since the spring. The first one is a view from a Pierce...
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reflecting
oil on a maple, 12 x 12 inches A meditating duck in the Banter Lake outside Liselotte’s cabin in Wilhelmshaven. The color that I chose for painting water in Northern Germany differs from my usual Lake...
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Clay and Lichen
A documentary on the progress of a layer of clay descending a dune Oil on maple, 24 x 18 inches For more than a decade, we have been watching a layer of clay slowly descending a slope of the Empire...
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