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Stealing Hours

I’m going to have WordPress post this on Monday for me though I’m writing it on Sunday, because it’s not an April Fool’s Day joke. REALLY. It’s not! I’ve decided to start getting up at 5AM. WHAT??? March passed by … Continue reading

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Milestones

The nice thing about milestones is that they don’t indicate any kind of ending, but rather a mark along the way to a destination.  So nothing here is finished, but simply one state has passed on to another. A while … Continue reading

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Unresolved

I learned a couple years ago that New Year’s resolutions don’t work for me. I have a tendency to “think big.”  While thinking big and having extraordinary ideas is very motivating in the *long term* (as in unending measures of … Continue reading

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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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Choose your own Adventure?

*feature image, drawing by Pierre-Paul Prud’hon One of the most intimidating milestones that loomed before me when I chose to pursue art and illustration was “developing a style.”  I have always been an observational artist; for over half my life … Continue reading

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The Civil Air Patrol Painting “We Were There”

Every so often I receive an email asking me if prints are available of my Civil Air Patrol September 11th painting, We Were There.  For anyone looking for the prints, the answer is YES. Simply visit the painting’s page at … Continue reading

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