Have A Kiss

My son and I were talking yesterday about art. Why not try a photo realistic painting sometime dad? Sounds like that could be cool he added. I figured why not and off we went going around the house looking for our first victim. We found this kiss, I partially undress it and went to work in acrylics on a small 4x6 canvas board.

This was a fun piece to paint so I think I will try and go after some more of these soon.

Click on the image for a larger kiss.

Raven

Well, I just paint landscapes ALL the time right? This one is acrylic on board with lots of texture in the background color. A very graphic clean composition on this 9x9 inch piece. I love the black against light contrast of this piece. To see a larger version, double click on the raven.

Wetlands hike and photo

Well today was kinda gray and cold. What else is new, its Oregon in February after all. Still I needed to get out today so I grabbed my camera and a nice large telephoto lens and headed out to a wetlands preserve. I was able to sneak up on this Great Blue Heron and took some nice photos of him before he had enough and flew off.

Maybe tomorrow will be a paint day.

Hello and welcome to my artist blog. I will post new paintings which are created almost daily when the creative spirt is flowing correctly. If it is not flowing, I will go fly fishing or enjoy a fine ale instead. Along with my paintings I will include some postings on places I have traveled to around the northwest. I plan on also including some postings on my  painting process and general painting info.