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Lush with foliage, vinyards are visually satisfying. This 5×7 inch oil painting represents some of the wonderful grapes grown in Washington State.
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During our trip to the US this year, we went in the Yosemite National Park for a few days. The beauty and the scale of nature are hard to describe.
We went on a walk to see the Giant Sequoia. I was pleased to find places where the snow was still there. I havested plenty […]

Today is one of my favorite Saturdays of the year: the Great American Brass Band Festival in Danville, KY. Every year on this weekend the town spiffs up, the stage is built on the Centre College quad, and ten thousand plus come to enjoy our Norman Rockwell town and hear the best brass […]

wholesale oil paintingcrying before she came downstairs, she took her again into her room one day, and drawing the child to her said, “Now tell me, Heidi, what is the matter; are you in trouble?” But Heidi, afraid if she told the truth that the grandmother would think her ungrateful, and would then […]

I came across this link today: Sketching in Thin Air
Using video cameras and motion capture, the Front design group is able to “sketch” in three dimensions. The captured sketches can be fed into a digital prototyping system to produce a physical object.

Oil Pastel in Cason SketchbookThis grabbed my eye on the counter after dinner had been cleared away. OK, sketching it was an excuse to delay dish washing. Art should get in the way of chores occasionally because its usually the other way around.
Oil pastel in sketchbookI wanted to try out these colors together. I started […]

The weather is hot and the colors are too. It was fun painting this 8×10 inch oil painting. I began with a red underpainting and added the colors of fall. Cadmium yellow, Naples yellow, Grumbacher red, Ultramarine blue, Sap green, and white were the colors that made up my limited pallette.
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Clearly this is a painting that is not one of my usual subjects. The painting resulted from a challenge in an online art forum that I often visit. The challenge was to paint this scene using only two colors plus black and white. The colors I used were yellow ochre and […]