Painting Tips

Data Analysis of My Art Business

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For the entirety of my career as a professional artist, I've kept detailed records of all the work I've created. This is an analysis of the data....

Increasing Your Exposure—Studio Safety for Professional Artists

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Did you ever wonder if there was a single thing that could differentiate professional artists from amateur artists?...

A Short Guide to GIMP Plugins

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This article provides a brief guide to getting started with automated image editing in GIMP. ...

Using Blender to Create Artist's Reference Images

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In this article, I set out to examine whether models created in Blender can be used as reference images for traditional artwork....

Working From Photos: New Paintings Summer 2021

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This article 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....

An Easy Way to Rescue Failed Paintings

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One advantage of painting on panels is that you can occasionally salvage a painting by removing part of it with a saw. In this blog post I show some of the pieces I recently created by cropping down old paintings....