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Aspen Painting, Stretching My Style

Aspen Painting, Stretching My Style

Lately, I have been embarking on a new direction. Well, sort of. It’s applying more paint to the canvas. I’ve tried before, but it didn’t stick. This time, I feel there is a new found boldness and more knowledge in my painting, making it much easier for me. Last weekend an artist friend of mine, [...]

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Mountain Sunset Painting...Preliminary Drawing Technique

Mountain Sunset Painting…Preliminary Drawing Technique

Mountain Light oil 6″ x 8″ $150. Click here to bid. I made a little drawing over the weekend and had a definite concept in mind. I searched through photos and came up with a photo from Colorado with the meandering stream flowing through the valley. I played with the color and came up with [...]

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New to Painting, What Should You Start With?

New to Painting, What Should You Start With?

Recently I got an email from a 16 year old wanting to start painting in oils. She asked for advise on how to start and what kinds of products. I replied with some advise.  My father painted with pastels. I remember him telling me when he took a painting class, he was told so little [...]

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Learning to See Color When Painting…Arizona Cotton Field

Learning to See Color When Painting…Arizona Cotton Field

Arizona Cotton Field 6″x6″ oil landscape The colors that we see everyday are “local” colors. The grass is green, a lemon is yellow. Pretty easy. Local color is the color of an object when viewed at a distance under normal lighting conditions. It is what we are taught as preschoolers. But this can be deceptive. [...]

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Sunflowers and Pomegranates oil still life painting

Sunflowers and Pomegranates oil still life painting

Sunflowers and Pomegranates 24×18″ oil on canvas $1650.  To buy click here. Hi everyone, Some of you may not even know that I paint still lifes. It has been way too long since I have. I used to paint them fairly often, especially sunflowers. So, I figured that it was time to do so. This [...]

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Paint More Than…BLUE SKIES, BLUE SKIES ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪

Paint More Than…BLUE SKIES, BLUE SKIES ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪

Giovanni, the GM Truck 6″x6″ In reality, blue skies have many more colors in them than a couple of tubes of blue paint. Of course there are all the other colors on a cloudy day, dawn or sunset. But what they all have in common is the combination of all three primaries. Of course, the [...]

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Time, an Old Stairway and Practice Doesn’t Always Make Perfect

Time, an Old Stairway and Practice Doesn’t Always Make Perfect

Superior Stairway 6″x6″ oil Hi everyone, This is a slice of an old building in Superior, Arizona. I loved the shadows of the staircase, kind of mysterious. But also the textures of the building and colors made a nice little painting with abstract qualities. I think I need to find more of these old buildings [...]

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The Secret Garden oil plein air painting

The Secret Garden oil plein air painting

The Secret Garden 8×10 oil © Becky Joy $400. click here to purchase. I just got back my paintings from Gadsden, Alabama when I did a plein air festival down there. I was able to take some good photos of the work and tweak a couple of the paintings. Sometimes you don’t see a problem with [...]

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