Category Archives: the creative process

Calling It Done

It was way too hot to sit out in the sun today so I wandered around a little this morning taking some photos and then came home and finished this. Full View, 12 x 16 inches Detail

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Welcome Visitors! 100! Paint! Quote!

For awhile now this blog has existed in two planes, the much older, self-hosted wordpress.org version and of late the wordpress.com version. I’d had a .com account for a long time mainly so I could answer questions about it by … Continue reading →

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painting and painting some more

The past couple days I’ve been working on this. You can see more in progress views and details here. After working on it for awhile today I pulled out a sheet of Canson Watercolor XL Paper. I got a pad … Continue reading →

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Out Looking Around This Morning

My intention was to get up early, grab a coffee and go out and paint. The night-spirit was good intentioned but the morning-spirit was not so fast moving. I did get up and grab a coffee but by the time … Continue reading →

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Waiting for this to dry

The sky didn’t really look like this last night where I was but it was very bright and colorful. I decided I’d try making one with dark clouds too. Really wet so it needed a good drying. Sun’s out today … Continue reading →

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