I am pleased to have been chosen one of 50 featured regional artists to participate in the Lakeland Art Crawl. The event is to take place at Sun ‘n Fun in Lakeland, Florida on December 3. Should be a great event. Thank you Lakeland Art Crawl.

This has been a busy couple of weeks and, because of other pressing obligations, I haven’t been able to get much done on my latest painting. I wanted to let you know that I haven’t dropped off the end of the earth.  I’m still prepping for the Rainbow Springs Fine Art Association Festival coming up […]

Work In Progress: Board of Directors Meeting (Pelicans), Update 2             The last week has been a little rough for me. I’ve had some arthritis and back issues and, just recently, a bad cold and flu. They’ve kept me from accomplishing much work on the painting. I’ve been nursing myself, along with my wife’s incredible […]

Work In Progress: Update 1, Board of Directors Meeting (Pelicans)             Recently, one of my students shared with me some very interesting photos she had taken while on a trip to Cedar Key, Florida. Although I had just finished a painting of pelicans, one photo in particular caught my interest and got me excited. It […]

Work in Progress: Pelicans, Update 3 The Pelicans and Finishing Up   More detail went into the Pelicans than anywhere else. They were the focus of the painting. I felt more confident doing detail work with pastel pencils, so, for the most part, I used the pencils on the birds, with only a little soft […]

Work in Progress: Pelicans, Update 2             I’ve decided to do an underpainting once again and I’ll be doing it with watercolor, so that’s why I chose an appropriate paper such as Arches watercolor paper. I also wanted to see how well the pastel takes to the paper – details, number of layers, etc. I […]

Work in Progress: Pelicans, Update 1 Pelicans are interesting birds. Their very distinctive beaks make them one of the most recognizable aquatic birds around. On recent trips to Tarpon Springs, Amelia Island and Canaveral National Seashore I found them to be one of the more ubiquitous birds on the water. They look so at home […]

Work In Progress: Suwanee River, Update 7   The painting is complete!   The important concept to remember with this painting is that I want to represent the scene in its basic, unembellished form – to represent the essence of the scene without detail. The less detail in the painting, the more the viewer is […]

Work In Progress: Suwanee River, Update 6 Working through this pastel painting has been a great learning experience for me. My thoughts will most certainly evolve further as I gain more experience in this wonderful medium. When I first started this painting I was not convinced, but I was strongly in favor of the premise […]

Work In Progress: Suwanee River, Update 5             As with most pastel landscape paintings I decided to do an underpainting. But, just what is underpainting and why do we do it? This is a question I kept asking myself as I watched many fine pastel artists demonstrate. They all pretty much used the technique of […]