This morning I drove over to the Houston Arboretum to paint. I got there at 8:00 a.m. and hiked 15 minutes over to the lily pond. I started with a 16″ x 20″ canvas, which I soon found out was too ambitious. After an hour I had blocked in the pond, clumps of lilypads, the

Today I painted a small canvas, 4″x4″, from a photo I took recently. Actually my daughter took it. Right now I think it’s a good exercise for me to paint some small canvases to work with color. Lots of tiny paintings will be better practice for me than a couple of larger ones.   These

This morning my family packed up the car and headed to Galveston beach, only an hour from Houston. I brought along my paint and some small canvases, thinking I might want to paint. It’s always a debate (with myself) whether or not I want to bring my painting supplies, if I do bring them then

Okay, here is the painting I did of the lily pond at the Houston Arboretum the other day. I “fixed” it. There is a small wooden deck that I put in the painting, but I didn’t like the way my painting looked with that deck so I wiped it off. I just replaced it with

Yippee! I’m finished with this portrait. I didn’t change much at all today. When I get to the point where the tiny little changes I’m making don’t add anything to the portrait as a whole, then I stop. No point nit picking and I am trying to stay a little looser and not finish every

I am almost finished with this painting, still need to paint his tie and few other little things here and there. Sorry about the glare on the painting, it’s still wet. Tomorrow I’ll take a fresh look at this painting and I know there will be a few things I’ll want to adjust. This man

Here is what looks like the same sketch from yesterday. But, I decided I didn’t like the placement of the figure so I wiped the whole thing off and sketched him (with paint) in this new position – about 3/4″ to the right of where he was on the canvas. I never thought of myself