This guy

I saw this painting in Southwestern art tonight and thought it was wonderful. I just had to share. This Joseph Todorovitch is pretty good. http://www.southwestart.com/wp-content/uploads/Joseph-Todorovitch-Fleet-oil-20-x-38..jpg

So much grass, but I'm getting it.

I always kind of struggle with fields and pastures, but I like them. Had to try some new methods while listening to St. Matthews Passion by Bach, but I reached a breakthrough. It's way better than it was, but I not near done yet. This is a good size too, 2 x 4 feet.

New Post

I haven't had a chance to post this week. Here is the drawing and the beginning of the painting. I meant this to be a horizontal piece making the landscape bigger. My drawing however was WAY bigger than I meant it to be. I didn't' feel like going to Kinko's and making it smaller, they are not always fun to deal with, so I decided to go with the big drawing instead. I think it will work though, I plan to make it my best. Stay tuned.......

Mercer County Reflection

Here's the finished product. I named it Mercer County Reflection. Reflection for the water and it was in Mercer county where I took the reference photo, there at Shakertown. I thought about just Reflection, it sounds more emotional, but I w

anted to keep the Kentucky aspect involved. It's a small piece, about 10 inches wide, but I kind of like working small now, I get done a lot faster. But, I'm about to do a 2 x 4 foot one, so we'll see how long it takes me to do that.

New Painting

I started working on the new painting last night after posting the new finished one. I drew everything out on this round piece of wood, and after a few hours of painting while watching WKRP in Cincinnati, I had a lot done. You can see in the second picture Julie on the little couch and the starving cat we took in on the floor. Julie may or may not be in my lap as I paint, but she's never far away

As Mountians Whisper

Here is a pic of the finished painting, As Mountains Whisper. I consider myself a Kentucky Painter, but I do sometimes paint the Tennessee Smokies. So that's my guilty admission. Actually, I did live for a few years in Memphis Tennessee as a kid, so I do consider myself, at least, part Tennessean. Even though the Smokey Mountains are in the other side of the state, I feel oddly at home in Tennessee, When you lose a parent like I lost my Father in 2010, you look for things from your childhood, when both your parents were young and healthy. I hate death and aging and all that mess. Anyway, this is a small painting that I will probably take to Frankfort sometime this week. I'll let you know more as things happen with that. And I've already drew two pictures from the photo shoot the other day. It went really well. I'm learning how to take better pictures for painting, and used that knowledge well, my wife Malissa came along and helped and did a great job, and the model, Britney, she's just great, I could never say enough good things about her. I'm really wanting to get to a new level in my paintings and I hope you being seeing those real soon.

Modeling

I usually don't show the actual photos from the modeling sessions I base my paintings on. I feel the models may not like their photos everywhere on the inter-webs. I had to show this one though and I asked permission before I did it. Today I did a modeling shoot at Shakertown with Britney, one of my favorite models, and (favorite friends too, she's great!), and while she was posing two deer were running on the hillside behind her. She's giving me a funny look because I was grunting and ohhing and ahhing because I was hoping the camera would quit processing and I could get another pic of these deer behind her. But they ran into the trees at the left before the camera was ready for another pic, stupid technology. Anyway, I thought this was really neat and just thought I'd share. It may also be important to note that it's deer hunting season here in Kentucky, but these guys are safe, there is no hunting on Shakertown property. They do allow a limited quail hunt, but these guys are deer. They could run off the property and get shot on someone's farm, but these guys were right in the middle of the property and very safe.