Holiday Cheer!

Due to the response I have gotten from the weekend sale, I am permanently lowering prices on all of my available drawings. I would like to s...

Figure Drawing - Going Tonal

This week I used only vine charcoal with hints of 4B General charcoal pencil and compressed charcoal to add some darks. These were 3-minute ...

Plein Air Events: 2011 in Review + Rankings

Last year I made a post about the plein air events I did in 2010.  I thought I would do the same thing for this year since not only did I pa...

Figure Drawing - Shorthand

This week my weapons of choice were primarily these woodless colored pencils by Koh-I-Noor called Progresso's. I also use Cretacolor Ner...

Video: Building My Own Canvas Panels

I've upgraded my computer after so many years, which means I can finally play with video. This is something  I made a while back but I...

Paint Allied Arts - Results (Mister Walk Down Me I'm The Walkway)

Hey everyone, Just letting you know that I won 3rd place for this painting I did at the Paint Allied Arts paint-out in Menlo Park. "...

Paint Allied Arts 2011

This Saturday, November 5th, I am participating for the second time in the Paint Allied Arts plein air paint-out in Menlo Park. We will be p...

Figure Drawing - A Lonely Pencil

This time I almost exclusively used the fat black Lyra Color-Giant pencil. I am still using the Canson Biggie sketch pad. The hard pencils f...

How To Get The Largest Images From Blogspot

This isn't really about art in particular but it might be useful to some people. I don't know how obvious this may be to some people...