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ABOUT THIS PICTURE 8.5″ x 11″, craft acrylic on paper. This started as a loose sketch painting trial using acrylic paints, for a large scale painting I was going to begin working on. As I was unfamiliar with acrylics at the time, I used craft acrylics, which came in bright pour-out tubes of color. They are an […]
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ABOUT THIS PICTURE 18″ x 24″ acrylic on canvas. This is one of the first paintings I ever did. I spent a considerable amount of time making a color chart, (featured below), being new to painting, taking note of how much white to mix with a particular shade of blue, for example, to get the […]
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ABOUT THIS PICTURE 18″x 24″, oil on canvas board. Done as an exercise, using Renoir’s painting Picking Flowers as a reference. I fell in love with the picture after being fortunate enough to see it in San Francisco, in person. Impressionism was a lot of fun to try, and gave me lots of room for […]
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ABOUT THIS PICTURE 18″ x 24″ oil on canvas. After attending a Van Gogh exhibition in San Francisco (if you ever get a chance to see his work, run, leap, fly out of your house and go see it) I got interested in impressionism. As the old masters used oils, I gave it a try! […]
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ABOUT THIS PICTURE 18″ x 24″ acrylic on canvas. This is one of the first paintings I ever worked on. Even though it’s not at all what I wanted it to be, I learned from it, and had a massive amount of fun. It gave me a great appreciation for impressionism. I did eventually […]