Red flowers anyone? An advantage of painting with oil.

Red flowers anyone? An advantage of painting with oil.

One of the best advantages for me in my art journey is using oil paint. This blog post is about a recent re-working of an oil painting. It was started maybe 7-8 years ago. I found it a while back, cleaning my studio closet. 

Here, to the left, is what the painting looked like when I found it. Well, let me say this: at the time I painted it, I was proud of it. Loved the colors of the flowers as well as the color of the vase. I'd been in a Jim Crompton workshop...

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The Fine Art and Career of Wayne Epperly

The Fine Art and Career of Wayne Epperly

When I began working on my next installment of my Creative Friends Series, I interviewed Wayne Epperly for a couple of hours and recorded that conversation. I have used snippets of that talk throughout this blog. Here they are all...

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Daily paintings and online class as a discipline.

Daily paintings and online class as a discipline.

Happy New Year! It's the time of the year we "take stock" of our lives and try to figure out how to become more like who we imagine ourselves to be. So as I spend time looking at the most important areas of my life, I'm seeing I need more discipline...

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