Time to transfer the drawing to the canvas and then paint! Here’s a quick run through how I transfer to canvas. I hope you find it useful. I stretched oil primed, portrait grade linen over stretcher bars. To transfer the drawing I’m using: store bought graphite paper a book...
Apr132016
Transfer a Drawing
Apr62016
Tiling and Transferring a Drawing
You need to enlarge and transfer a drawing to your canvas but your usual printing service is currently unavailable. Not a problem. My solution: tiling. I scan my drawing and resize it to the desired painting size in Photoshop, keeping the resolution somewhere between 150 – 250 ppi. This...
Mar302016
Unicorn Show 2
Unicorn Art Show 2, Opening April 7, 2016 I’m pleased to announce that I will be participating in the second annual Unicorn Art Show. https://nemaa.org/events/unicorn-art-show-2 My piece, “Glimpse of the Unicorn” is inspired by a special place in northern Minnesota. It is a digital painting and I will be...
Mar232016
Real vs. Believable
While in art school I desperately wanted to learn how to make things look real. One of the instructors said to me on several occasions, and I’m paraphrasing here, “is it (the drawing) believable”? Lately this idea has come to the foreground for me and I’m questioning what “believable”...
Mar162016
Composition
I’m working on improving my composition skills. I’m taking a class and the instructor suggested Andrew Loomis’ book “Creative Illustration”. I read this years ago and am re-reading it. There’s so much useful information crammed in its pages! Anyway, I thought I’d share a few other resources I’ve found...
Mar22016
MarsCon Minnesota 2016
There’s less than a week away to MarsCon in Minnesota! I’m very excited to be one of the creative guests of honor and am looking forward to participating in the events. I created three original pen and ink drawings for the convention’s program book. The original art will be...
Feb242016
Solvent Free Oil Painting
I needed a solution for painting without solvents so I turned to M. Graham’s Walnut Alkyd Medium, an Artists’ Oil Medium. There are several options out there but this is one of the products I have on hand. I’ll be doing an oil painting demo at a sci-fi fantasy...
Feb102016
Artist Sketchbook
Keeping an artist journal or sketchbook can be tricky sometimes. Or maybe it feels like a difficult, lengthy chore. Stephan Orsak shared some insights into the artist journal and making it a fun part of the creative process in a recent workshop. I’m not a consistent scribbler. I’d like...
Jan272016
Twin Cities Winter Art Ideas
It’s winter in Minnesota and a lot of us are holed up in our homes and don’t get to see much of other humans. Maybe you’re like me and around February you start to get a little cabin fever. If you’re looking for something art-y to do here are...
Jan202016
Solution for a Nocturne
I was a little flummoxed as to how I needed to arrange the values in my Owl Man project to give it a dusk or nighttime feel. One thing that I was taught and has worked for me is to look at how other artists solved a similar problem....