Tag Archives: shapes
Painting of the Week – Garden Stairway
Let Light Simplify Shapes
Here is a subject I totally enjoyed painting - flowers in containers with exciting shadows. I saw this dropp...
Painting of the Week – Green & Gold
Working with Pointed Shapes
This spring I planted three Giant Yellow Marigolds in a Turquoise pot and placed it on my picnic table in ...
Painting of the Week – Lioness
Throw Back Thursday - Seeing Shapes
This lioness was painted by me, at home, unsupervised, at age seventeen. Since lions don’t hang ou...
Painting of the Week – Summer Shade
Coloring Silhouettes
This is the time of year that just about everyone is looking for a little relief from the sun. ‘Back to school ti...
Painting of the Week – Broadway
Shapes are Powerful
In 2004, a bank commissioned me to paint Broadway. Their instructions were simple, “paint something of Fargo that ...
Painting of the Week – Off to Work
Value Groupings Make Interesting Shapes
A couple of years ago, I was teaching a workshop in Bismarck. I drove from my host's home down...
Painting of the Week – Sunstruck
Geometric and Organic Shapes
Finding this window box in South Carolina was a must paint for me. This is a warm dominant painting (Red,...
Painting Tip this Week – Alien Invasion
Funny Shapes & Symmetry
If you got the giggles looking at this photograph, you are not alone. I dreamt about these beautiful untri...
Painting of the Week – Wishing Well
Arranging Shapes to Create Movement
Seeing this 2003 Watercolor made me pause and think of wishing you all well. I hope you and your f...
Painting of the Week – Brittany Loves Biking
Connecting the Subject to the Background
When I was in college, I took a portrait painting class from Jack Youngquist, a masterful art...