COMPOSE

Learning to think with a color wheel can take a lot of guess work out of getting the right color while painting.  First, we train ourselve...

Let's play with color.  The photo below has in it a number of colors.  Coming up with a limited palette scheme for this can take us on...

Let's take a little journey with notan. Using this photo as our subject without doing a notan study, we might ignore some key s...

The subject is Herefords grazing.  One cow is looking out at the audience while the other three go about their business.  Light coming fro...

One of the hottest controversies in the painting world revolves around tracing projected photos onto the painting surface versus setting up...

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Today I'm sharing with you glimpse of my private world, the life of my sketchbooks.  Over the seven decades of being an artist and teac...

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One reason some artists avoid drawing the nude human figure is that, more than any other subject, every mark counts.  Not only is the drawin...

What we do reflects what we know as well as what we don't know.  Knowledge is not static nor is it finite nor is it limited to study fro...

Gesture drawing is our most direct tool for absorbing the essence of what we see.  Simply defined a gesture drawing captures the movement th...

Let's switch gears a bit and take a look at our work habits. No matter our style of painting or our personality, there are ways t...

I've always been intrigued by how much can be said with so little when the saying of it is in the hands of a master.  There are volu...