Springtime along the Potomac is beautiful. The combination of the blooming flowers, trees, and temperate weather makes for great hiking and/or kayaking.
This oil painting measures 8″ x 10″ and is painted on back-stapled, gallery-wrapped canvas that comes ready to hang on your wall!
Available for bidding on eBay from now through Thursday, June 13th at 6pm eastern time.
Potomac River Landscape
Sides of Canvas Painted Black
Here is a painting I’m working on of a house facing the Atlantic Ocean, in Sao Rafael, Portugal.
Painting in Progress – Sao Rafael, Portugal
Imagine yourself on a sunny day in the Mediterranean region, exploring winding narrow streets and stairways with fresh flowers in bloom!
The image from this painting is from the Old Town section of Ibiza, Spain. My wife and I visited there in 2004 and then took our honeymoon to Ibiza in 2009!
Ibiza Flowers & Architecture
Available for bidding on eBay until Sunday, June 2nd at 9pm eastern time!
I thought it’d be interesting to show people what my (and I imagine other artists) paintings look like before I start adding all of the detail. So I snapped these two photos of a couple more dog portraits that I’ve been commissioned for.
Doesn’t it look so basic? This looks like the art I did in first grade! Yet it’s the result of lots of measuring, sketching, and color mixing. The black that you see in the second photo? It’s Phtalo Blue paint mixed with Alizarin Crimson paint. This makes it more vibrant than your standard black paint, yet the eye can hardly tell the difference!
These are the base layers that give the foundation for how cool and detailed they’ll look later.
Like any work project, there are lots of small parts involved that make up the whole!
On another note, I’m working on several “cultural” paintings that will be placed in the office of an international education study-abroad non-profit located in Arlington, Virginia. This project is a work-in-progress that will probably be finished around early February, and I’ll be writing a bit about it in my upcoming e-newsletter.
To see a few of these paintings, as well as the finished dog portraits with all of their detail, sign up for my free monthly e-newsletter here!
Capturing the essence of somebody’s being when doing a portrait is like hitting the sweet spot. In this recent portrait drawing of father and daughter, I think I hit that sweet spot. It really shows her innocent energy and playfulness, and his love for his little princess. What she’s doing is slapping a sticker of Dora the Explorer on his forehead, just in case you’re wondering!
Father and Daughter Portrait!
Another “inner surfer art” oil painting as part of Art With Meaning’s partnership with Bodhi Surf School and Grupo SURF, a community-based organization in Costa Rica that empowers youth in the sustainable development of their communities!
