thinking & making
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Des Plaines river, after a storm
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Buyukada, Turkey
The day i spent on Buyukada is among the best days ever. I hope to return to this beautiful island and once again enjoy its fullness!
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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…