Critiquing my own painting
Formal critique of your own work allows you to disentangle yourself from your emotions and look at your painting’s strengths and weaknesses objectively
Four most useful types of paint brushes
Losing my brushes last fall made me think long and hard about what I care about for field painting. Here are the four shapes I like the most.
Naughty trickster cinnamon fern
Either these were not bracken ferns but rather cinnamon ferns, or I can’t draw. The latter is simply ridiculous so I’ve renamed the painting.
Pride goeth before a fall
“I managed to not fall,” I said gleefully as we crossed back into Erickson Fields. “In fact, I haven’t fallen one time this whole year.” Which was stupid, since it’s always the downhill slope that gets you.
Monday Morning Art School: ten great reasons to take a plein air workshop
Plein air taught me more about painting then years of intensive studio instruction. Here are ten reasons I think plein air is helpful.