thinking & making
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Badlands, South Dakota
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Palmquist Farm, Wisconsin
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New fruit for a friend
Finally got around to finishing this painting that i started maybe two years ago. I first completed the painting on paper, then mounted it on MDF, cut it out, sanded and painted the edges, then varnished. Now i just need to make time to drive to Madison so it can meet its owner, my long-time…
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Sayre Park, Chicago
I just love the way this painting of a flooded field at Sayre Park turned out. This is my third daily painting.
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Lake Myvatn, Iceland
Daily tiny landscape #2.
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Half Moon Bay (tiny landscape #1)
I’m going to try and do one very small (7cm x 7cm) gouache landscape painting each day for 100 days. The idea is to keep the process under 15 minutes or so, but i know it’ll be tempting to extend. Today’s entry is from a photo I took in Half Moon Bay, CA sometime in…
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Chopped the old tomato
The giant heirloom tomato painting that was hanging on the side of my garage for the past two years was getting ragged around the edges, so i finally took it down and chopped it up into these bits. Hopefully i can make use of them down the line. I’ll miss that big cheery tomato when…
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Iceland painting
I’ve been wanting to experiment with painting landscapes for a long time now, and i finally bit the bullet and picked a photo from our anniversary trip to Iceland in 2010 to paint from and present to my lovely bride for an anniversary gift. Painting with gouache is really different than acrylic in a number…
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Sinbad Baseball
I’ve been playing around with games on top of games, adding different rules to pinball games for variation or to focus on a particular aspect of the game I want to practice.