Snowy Morning
5x7
Graphite
$50

First in a series of pencil drawings during this perfect season of white on black. Happy New Year!

Pebble Creek First Snow

Pebble Creek First Snow
Oil 12x16 $180 framed

Here is the final painting discussed in the video on YouTube. My first snow scene with two more on the easel. Hope to get them done before Spring!

How I painted video

I recently completed a winter scene painting and videotaped the whole thing. After hours of editing it down I posted it on YouTube. Definitely a learning experience from both the shooting of my work to cutting stuff out to get down to the 10 minute max for YouTube. I hope to provide some insight into how I go about doing what I do when I paint. If it is helpful great. If you have some pointers to make me paint better, please comment.

Check out my painting video on YouTube


Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Ov_rUq760

I recently completed a portrait for my uncle. This is of his longtime hunting dog, Nala. This turned out pretty good, though you really can't tell by the photo here. I think he was happy with the results.

Lake at dusk
Oil, 11x14
$175

I'm on a roll, with 5 new pieces at some stage of completion. This was from summer as the sun was setting on a great hot day. I fished from shore while taking some photos. In the midst of winter, this painting brings back relaxing summer memories. All palette knife work with a somewhat Impressionistic color scheme.

Stayin' Busy

Here is a piece I've finished lately (oil 16x20 $250). I want to have more quality work available to both sell and take to galleries. Takes time, effort, and motivation.

I was inspired this week and came across an artist who's worked brought the "OMG" response from me. His name is Jovan Villalba. This is creativity 10x. I never heard of him but it sure brought some motivation to me to think outside the box and try to be more free-flowing when putting paint on canvas.

Gallery Art Crawl- snowed in

Saturday was my first gallery appearance and the scheduled Art Crawl for my city, Waukesha. Mother Nature blew up some big winds, snow and temps around 10*. Needless to say, it was a bust for all involved. Other than friends and family of the 12 artists in my gallery (all of who won't spend money), I could probably count the visitors on two hands. Oh well; accept the things you can't change and move on.

I misplaced my camera that night but it was found and I'll upload some shots from that evening asap.

Fresh Snow

December started by me with a fresh 6" of snow overnight. I've been wanting to do some winter landscapes and hope to get out to take pix today. Two weeks ago we had a few inches and I did manage to wander down to a creek by my house to take some photos (above). I hope to put a few of these to canvas by the end of this month.

Yesterday I managed the gallery where I'm at. 1 customer came in during the 4 hours I was there. It was Packer Sunday, and it is downtown Waukesha, WI. I know that galleries are typically slow most days, and the new owner I'm working with needs to optimize his hours open. I did take a canvas with me and had time to work on that piece. In that sense, it was good. I did it right in the front window; both for natural light and to try and get someone to throw some coins at the window. All I managed to do was somehow get 3 big globs of oil paint on the carpet.