Tag: experiences

Illustrating the Human Experience

September 15, 2019

The human experience is a messy wreck of happy circumstance, bumbling and humorous mistakes, and woeful tragedies. To put it simply, it’s a wreck. It’s also all we’ve got, and one thing we all have in common is the human condition. Illustrating the shared experience of being a human …

A Quick Impression

August 14, 2019

A painting is a snapshot from life, a blink of an eye, one moment in time. Yet, art is sometimes considered to be “fine art” from a realist’s perspective. This means that the closer to realistic that a painting gets, the artist is considered more talented. This is one …

23 & me says I am 99.6% . . .

July 2, 2019

Imagination! LOL..and only 47.5% Irish and English. Well, actually it said I was 99.6% European but what do they know!?! I just returned from a two week holiday and painting trek thru Ireland. It was a wonderful time and an absolutely beautiful country. Very clean and very friendly people. …

Painting Nature as the Seasons Change

November 21, 2018

Have you ever experienced the changing of the season? Recently, I went on the PleinAir Magazine Publisher’s Invitational for Fall Color Week in the Canadian Rockies. Walking through the woods to paint en plein aire became quite interesting as it began to snow that week and finding any “fall …