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Why I Love Private Commissions

When you’re an artist, there’s really only three motivations for producing art:  You can create for yourself, drawing and painting the pictures you want to see, or those you want to apply to a personal project either of your own … Continue reading

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Finished Commissions

If you’re not in the mood or the place to look at buff shirtless guys, skip this post until you are! It always feels good to get a big project behind you. I’ve had a little bit of Mountain Road … Continue reading

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More Mountain Road

With all the flowers painted in, Mountain Road is finally coming together.  It’s taken a lot of patience to get it here, lots of tiny dots of paint!  What’s left is a lot of detail in the greenery, some grass … Continue reading

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Progress on the Mountain Road

I finally got over the hump painting the locomotive for Mountain Road and figured it was due for an update here. The stone tunnel was tedious but not terribly difficult; it was organic, and colors were allowed to shift a … Continue reading

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Along the Mountain Road

All summer long I’ve been developing this painting.  It’s not every day I get a commission like this; generally a lot of what I do is very go-to-it. References are provided, I draw, I paint, it gets done.  But now … Continue reading

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