I recently started a YouTube channel with pastel painting demos and painting tips. Before YouTube, I would blog about a painting from...

Winter scenes have arrived! I visited Marsh View Meadow Park in Pittsfield Township on a sunny, late afternoon. The sky was clear and...

My first plein air of the Spring season is Gnarly Charlie. Charlie can be found at Marshview Meadows Park in Pittsfield Township,...

On the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, you can find Ruby Beach, situated on the Pacific Ocean. The curiosity of this location is the...

I was torn between calling this one "C'mon In" or its current title. An old shed and home overgrown with vines. Reference photo take on...

As the weather turns for the worst in Michigan, it is time to revisit my collection of photographs that I use as inspiration and...

This blog article is an update to one published in March of 2018. The final version of the painting "Woodland Waltz" is posted at the...

Planning a landscape painting, from initial concept to sketch, value definition, underpainting and application of pastels, is critical to...

Hopefully soon I will do a time lapse video of a painting from start to finish. Since I haven't yet tackled that technology, I thought I...

Earlier this month I posted this blog in which I chose among my collection of blues to complete an underpainting all in blue. Here was...

Working on detail of a woodland scene, I decided to encourage my habit of populating many different colors in one value (aka light or...

This scene in Lucca, a medieval walled town in Tuscany, caught my attention while vacationing in Italy in 2016. I find this street scene...

Notice the group of small trees on the left in this work-in-progress version of "Cross Country Craving." The twigs near the top of the...

I thought I would spice up my underpainting techniques to do paint this landscape of a field at Matthaei Botanical Gardens in Ann Arbor....

My winter scene as noted in my recent blog "Many Shades of Grey" has earned itself a warm and contrary color watercolor underpainting. I...

I decided that the underpainting will be a warm orange. This will contrast nicely with the blues of the snow I plan to pay down shortly!...