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As each days activities is so busy it seems necessary to invoke a simple little tool to keep one aware of the must do things so that they just don't slip away. A little reminder at the proper time is good to keep things in order and on tract so as not to force a comment like, "Man, that was suppose to be done a while ago and now I'm in deep water!"Need a calendar. Yep. Organization. I've got to

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Yellow Lily Sunshine floral oil painting was created from a photograph taken of a lily growing in my backyard. Yellow conveys a warm feeling and this particular painting reminds me of my boyhood days. I'd lay in the farmers field on sunny days while watching the clouds row by. I'd try to picture in my mind the many animal images they would make as they danced across the sky.It seemed good to

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Prepared the composition for my Buoy oil painting today. A litte bit ago I had dug into my artist photograph reference shoe box and found a picture I had taken while on a vacation boat ride of a buoy. I thought that this would make for an interesting peice of artwork. To the right is the photograph artist reference image I'll be using. I'll also post the progression on this oil painting on

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Well in the past few days I've setup four new oil paintings. Three of them will be rose floral paintings and one is going to be a red buoy floating in the bay water. On the seascape painting with the buoy will be a portion of land extending out to the ocean with a lighthouse resting at the furthest point of land.I went to visit LC Art Gallery in downtown Greenville, South Carolina and talked to a

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Well, have to regroup on the Pinkish Rose oil painting and take a few steps back to ensure I'm getting the composition right. Art is a learning process that in one's lifetime is never going to end and that's wonderful thought. I think that's a great thing having a outlet that one can escape to and make the bad days go away.I made the mistake of not doing a thumb nail sketch before starting the

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After starting “Move Over” I learned of an artist technique referred to as Harmonic Proportions. In simple terms it is the placement of art subjects in an art composition at areas where the art viewer's natural vision rest. Artist blog of Alan Douglas Ray gives a more indepth discussion of this artist technique. I was a little surprised as to where the intersecting interest points of the viewer

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Got a pencil and like doing puzzles? An artist grid drawing puzzle is an artist tool use that helps in learning to draw. Grid puzzles let us see negative space, distance, shapes and a whole host of other arty things. After sometime with practice you can find yourself seeing art subjects in a whole different way. Drawing puzzles enable the basic art form or foundation of an artwork to be drawn

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Colors on the canvas of the Yellow Lily are painted in rich glowing golden hues. This painting begins with bright warm sky colors with shadowy contrasting clouds. A small meadow is brushed in the background along with a pond that reflects more of the warm sunlight's beaming rays. The large Yellow Lily flower is painted off center to the left.Selecting an area off center in the upper right I

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Bad. Really doesn't look good. Yep it's down right ugly but it does what I need it to do. It tells me where the sky, background mountains and foreground areas will be. What it is, is the underpainting. By painting this way I've learned to make an art composition complete. It helps me not to hit any bumps in the road and get stuck.I like to let my paintings dry a few days which gives me time to

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Well it took a little bit but I'm very well pleased and excited about getting started my newest landscape oil painting. Over looking a waterfall from the top side and looking outward to a valley gives a dimensional feeling to this artwork.Artistically I'm still contemplating the direction where the sunlight will illuminate from which will have a bearing on the whole artwork. Light will effect the

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With a digital camera I went capturing some great reference photos at Reedy River Falls Park in Greenville South Carolina. It's a wonderful restful park to enjoy a day with the family.When using a reference photo a dilemma that usually occurs in my artworks is fitting the photo to the canvas. For sure, for sure I'm cropping my reference photo to get that just right composition. This always

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