Framing 101 – Part 2 (The Reveal)
Okay, so "Blank Canvas" has been at Tanner Frames for a couple of weeks. It was really fun to pick it up and [...]
Framing 101 – Part I
As an artist, every so often I get questions about what happens to a painting after it leaves the easel. Shipping is [...]
American Art Collector Debut!
TRAC 2019? A curated art show? American Art Collector!? Sweet! As an ancillary event to this past spring’s The Representational Art Conference (TRAC) [...]
NASA Embedded Artist?
This article came out recently in the New York Times describing a reemergence of an artist residency/collaboration with NASA. I'd like to propose [...]
Green Leafy Things
I started working on the foreground today. Specifically, the background of the foreground. More specifically, the leaves and branches of the tree in [...]
Background Complete
All right! It’s been a ton of work, but finishing the intrepid, child mars-tronaut explorers at the top of the painting means the [...]
It’s Full of Stars
After carefully painting in the elliptical paths of the planets around the sun, I decided to go ahead and paint a few stars to [...]
Can’t Believe that Worked!
Ok, I believe it… I’m just greatly relieved that it worked. I did what basically amounts to a charcoal transfer, but using white [...]
Transferring a Large Drawing to Canvas
So you’ve finished carefully drawing out a composition for a new painting. You love it, it's ready and it's time to put it [...]