I love painting animals. They are all so unique and beautiful. I get and idea in my mind and it fills up my head until I have a painting. I will search photo purchase sites and purchase just the right line in the animal, just the right type of background, every angle meets my approval. I know what the painting …
Happy Being a Drip
Sometimes I’m surprised when I set out to paint something and it comes out just like I hope it will. I decided to add water drops to the fern in the front of the painting and the drops would fall off the plant into the river and bounce back up. I’ve painted waves, lakes, oceans, water in a vase but …
It’s always better with a monkey bath
My brother David owns “The Bookman” a used bookstore in Orange California. I can sit for hours on the floor in front of the animal section and look through the picture books they have in stock. The smokey misty feel of this tiger painting comes from a type of photo I’ve seen in one of those books. Whenever you see those …
Cellphone Critic
I like to hold my paintings up to a mirror when I feel there is something off in the way the animal looks, like the eyes not looking in the same direction or the stripes not going around it’s body. I found I can see what was is bothering me that way but try holding a 30 x40 painting in …