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

Grand Teton Waters was inspired by a photo taken by my daughter Sara a few years ago as she hiked in the Grand Tetons. This painting was...

I was rather pleased with the bold color effects of "The Clearing," where I applied an acrylic under-painting of colors representing the...

My family's Thanksgiving holiday was (once again) spent "way up north, " traversing the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Northern...

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...

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

Part of my new Gallup Park Series of pastels, this painting shows the abundance of water lilies on this stretch of the Huron River. The...

Here's a painting based on my recent visit to Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge in Northwest Ohio. This scene can be found at the Crane...

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...

Inspired by a cold late November afternoon on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, "Wind Chill" is a 21x27 inch pastel painting on Uart sanded...

Accomplished artists have a distinct "style" about their work. At the Chicago Pastel Painters Biennial National Juried Exhibition, my...

Continuing on my beach theme from summer vacation at Breezy Point, New York, below is my first oil painting done since my last tampering...

Here's a more impressionistic pastel painting on the bayside at Breezy Point, New York. I decided to take an overcast day and instead...

New pastel painting: pond in Lillie Park, near Ann Arbor, MI. Soft pastel on Uart sanded paper. 10x13. See Marsh Madness and other...