One of the virtues of oil paint is that you can paint in a drizzle or a downpour. Don’t even think of trying it in watercolor. In 100 percen...

The art school at the State University of New York in Fredonia is an undiscovered gem. The campus adjoins a tree-shaded small town in the ro...

Photos are a big help, but you can’t take them too literally. I wanted to paint a picture of an elegant gentleman scrubbing the teeth of a B...

I welcome being stuck at a laundromat because it means finding a “non-motif.” You know how it is when you’re driving along looking for a pic...

Here I am on my way to a day’s work at Gallery One in Mentor, Ohio, one of the premier galleries for art prints and originals. I gave my Ma...

This painting from the Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara shows Will Denison flying through the mists of Waterfall City on his giant pterosaur ...

We stopped at a breakfast place along U.S. Highway 20 called the Country Table. It was filled with guys with plaid shirts and women with dye...

Yesterday morning was ideal for sketching, with fleecy clouds rolling in. We set up our chairs on the front lawn of a medical office and got...

Here’s a 16x20 inch oil study of thunderheads on a warm July day. I was amazed as I worked over a two hour period how fast the scene changed...

Jeanette and I paused in Valparaiso, Indiana to recharge our art batteries. Valparaiso is the county seat of Porter County, but not many to...