
Working From Photos: New Paintings Summer 2021
Jul 25, 2021
I started this blog post with the idea of providing an outline of how I use reference photos. It took a few weeks of writing before I realized that this was a hopeless idea. Instead, this blog shows some of my recent work—all painted from reference photos—with a description of how I tried to get beyond the photo in each case....

Recent Work: Fall 2020
Oct 13, 2020
The pandemic has prevented me from getting out to paint this year and the only reference photos I've been able to take are of the skies seen from our deck. So in order to scratch that itch, I've taken to doing "virtual paint outs"—painting in the studio as if it was on location. ...