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Thanks Katherine Tyrrell for her “Making a Mark” award for my blog! The award was given for “continued strong focus on sharing information on his blog as well as his

I took another shot at the painting below. It was sitting in my studio for a while, and I felt something just wasn’t quite right. I lightened the ground, separated

I didn’t make it to Blackwood Canyon this year, so I’m relying on old digital photos for this painting of an Aspen grove there. Aspens – Oil on Linen –

I know there are many fans of Ovanes Berberian that visit my blog. I’ve just heard from Ray Morrison that his workshop schedule for 2007 is now available. If you’re

This is the second painting I did Saturday (here’s the first). I’m really happy with with it, although I’m not sure it “reads” as it should. Of course they’re bluffs,

I had a great weekend this week! Three good paintings, no scrapes. Everything went so well. Sure, I wish it was a bit warmer, but the light was perfect. I

It’s a cloudy, cold day today, so I stayed in my “studio” to paint. Looking through my digital photo library, I came across of photo of a rock formation taken

It was a rainy, windy, gray day today; but I felt I really needed to get out and paint. So paint I did. Twice. Once interupted by a rainstorm, so

The other day I wrote about “Sight Painting“, a technique I use similar to a musian’s sight reading that allows me to quickly interpret and paint a scene. I guess

As you can imagine, this was done from a photograph (digital projected on a TV) given Yosemite is probably covered in snow right now.  I started with transparent washes of