Howdy everyone! Today, Saturday the 11th, I’ll be having the reception for “Our Redwoods” at the Benicia Plein Air Gallery from 4-6 pm. If you’ve been following any of my Instagram posts over the last 9 months, you’ll know I’ve been painting in the redwoods. (By the way, if you want to follow me
This is the last post in the series on Notan. I wanted to start with this video of Albala’s. It’s a great introduction to applied notan, and the nuts and bolts of “arranging contrast-patterns” (whatever the contrast might be, whether color, value, texture, etc). Around the 4:00 mark, A
This is a painting I did from a limited palette I’ve been working on building. We’ll be exploring using a limited palette in my online workshop in April , focusing on color contrast and controlling mixtures. This palette has only 5 pigments. American Journey’s Ultramarine Blue (PB29), Burnt Sienna
I've had the opportunity to make some new paintings recently, some plein air and some studio pieces, and as I critiqued them (both for the good and the bad), I thought- this is an opportunity! A number of these I'm thinking about painting again, either at the same size or bigger, and as I
I will be participating in the Benicia Open Studios this weekend, downtown at the Benicia Plein Air Gallery. I’ll be bringing in additional work for sale, such as these paintings from Lands End and others. If you’re interested, please let me know. I’ll also be bringing in some larger versions of
I had a number of readers ask about the demo I did last week, so my darling wife took the time to video tape it. It’s in 5 short parts. About 45 minutes in total. It covers most of the demo, and is generally conversational. If you have some questions after asking, please post your comments. He
Each day, Chien did a number of paintings. I’ll be sharing process pics of them in this post and discussing his techniques, as I remember them. First, however, some Chien originals from the almighty Google-
Wendy Artin is an American watercolor artist that lives in Rome. I found out about her a few years ago, and have been a private fan ever since. Now I get to share her with everyone! :) You can find her website at http://www.wendyartin.com/ . Please
This Saturday (August 13th) I'll be sitting at the Benicia Plein Air Gallery from 8-4 pm, during the annual Peddlers Fair . Benicia blocks off the entire length of 1st street to through traffic, and over 20,000 people come down to stroll, shop, and play. We do not have a booth
After I finished the last post, I found a number of other paintings that used additional "opaque" techniques. I wanted to share them this week to fully flesh out the value of these types of pigments. On that note- I know a lot of people keep 12 color palettes, but if yo
I just came back from a 4-day watercolor workshop with Chien Chung-Wei, in Vancouver, BC. What an experience. Phew! I’m going to be sharing photos, paintings (both mine and Chien’s), and insights from the workshop over the next few posts. So, who is this crazy guy?
The Beauty of Intermingling Lights and Darks- I wanted to come back to master-studies, and talk more about what we can get from making notans in this way. Yes, when we do this we duplicate dark and light patterns. But so what? What does that really teach us? The learning process goes deeper th
I just came back from a 4-day watercolor workshop with Chien Chung-Wei, in Vancouver, BC. What an experience. Phew! I’m going to be sharing photos, paintings (both mine and Chien’s), and insights from the workshop over the next few posts. So, who is this crazy guy?
It's been a little over a year since I wrapped up my series of posts on my Zbukvic workshop last year. But surprise, surprise! Hiding in my computer were two extra demos. :) I asked JZ, and he was ok with me sharing them. This was the very first painting Josep
I'll be sharing my paintings from the workshop in this last post, as well as the critiques Chien gave me. This first one is the abstract we did. The Chien painting I used is on the left, my abstract on the right. It was very hard to move past the shape of the trees!! C
So, I bought a big 37 ml tube of Raw Umber for this technique, and that has been invaluable, as I'm no longer stingy about squeezing it out of the tube (which you can't be, if you want the technique to work). I've not used Da Vinci's yet (got a tube on order), but their 37ml tube is on
Ok, this is a big post full of info, so, first, lets start out with some more beautiful paintings by Chien-
This is the last post in the series on Notan. I wanted to start with this video of Albala’s. It’s a great introduction to applied notan, and the nuts and bolts of “arranging contrast-patterns” (whatever the contrast might be, whether color, value, texture, etc). Around the 4:00 mark, A
So, I bought a big 37 ml tube of Raw Umber for this technique, and that has been invaluable, as I'm no longer stingy about squeezing it out of the tube (which you can't be, if you want the technique to work). I've not used Da Vinci's yet (got a tube on order), but their 37ml tube is on
Alright, lets jump right in. I'm going to start this post off with some technical details about Herman's setup. Palette and Paints- Of course, it's not much of a surprise that this is what his palette looks like. Haha! Although, note how he keeps one well
