#Saline

Dec 5, 20181 min read

Pastel Painting: "Meeting at Mill Pond"

Mill Pond Park is located on the west side of Saline, MI. This pastel painting was created on Uart sanded paper with a variety of soft...

Nov 30, 20182 min read

StudioSense: Filling the Gap

Here's a pastel painting-in-progress that includes a change in the composition mid-stream. The painting is called "Meeting at Mill Pond."...

Nov 10, 20181 min read

Pastel Painting: "Enter At Your Own Risk"

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...

Oct 21, 20181 min read

It's Showtime! Upcoming Exhibits

Two upcoming venues will exhibit work of local artists including a selection of my landscape pastel paintings. The Clinton Arts Center is...

Jun 4, 20181 min read

Pastel Painting: Morning Snack at Wooley Park

My initial foray into plein air painting resulted in the painting below, "Wooley Park Stroll." As this painting sat in inventory I felt...

Jan 14, 20182 min read

Painting Technique: Capturing the Glow of Winter

Rolling Hills County Park in Ypsilanti, Michigan maintains 3 miles of groomed cross-country skiing trails. I've enjoyed skiing and...

Jul 30, 20171 min read

Pastel Technique: Acrylic Underpainting

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

Jul 22, 20171 min read

New Pastel Painting - Woolley Park Stroll

Woolley Park Stroll was started en plein air with my studio assistant Cosmo. Completed today, I decided to enhance some of the...

Jul 17, 20172 min read

Pastel Technique: Impressionistic Touches

On another plein air excursion this past weekend, I came across a bucolic early morning scene at Wooley Pary, just west of South State...