It never truly feels finished.  It’s more that I’ve decided to move on b/c the next idea is pushing at the inside of my skull.  But nothing I’ve painted has ever felt fully finished.  This doesn’t feel finished.  I do love the layering of the oil paints on top of water colors.  The practice of […]

Lessons learned from previous paintings. I did a swatch painting where I just intuitively painted as I explored how many different pigments and various I could get out of using a limited palette of 5 colors.  My goal is to get down to 3 colors but this was such a wonderful exercise.   If you look

I did a larger painting of this sketch in watercolor and I loved how it hard turned out.  So I had to give it a shot with oil paints. Working with the palette knife is harder than it looks! I also feel the color palette is intense.  I didn’t do swatches before starting this piece. 

I always loved Claude Monet’s paintings and for my birthday PK took me to the immersive experience.  It was phenomenal.   Aside from the various awesome things I saw and learned, the biggest take away was that to create my visions, I needed to use Oil Pigments.  After watching a ton of youtube videos, following oil