Daily Routine baby steps in the right direction to become an artist

For better or worse, life is made up of our small daily habits. High achievers have habits that reflect their values and aspirations in life.

 Unfortunately, most people have habits that keep them comfortable but do not achieve the things they want in life.

 Over time, work to remove habits that hold you back, but it's even more important to add positive daily habits that reflect your highest and best qualities.

I paint each day. I finish a small painting each day I strive for progress not perfection.Today I have sketch out two small painting that I will finish but the large 24x48 that has been percolating in my mind is just starting to form on canvas. This is one of my fun whimsical painting and is a joy to paint.

It doesn't look like much right now but it is a great start.



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Backgrounds

For most paintings, regardless of subject matter or media, it’s essential to consider the background as part of the composition. Even if you decide to just leave empty space around your image, then you're still creating a background.


I have started a large 24x48 inch painting and have benn trying to work out the details. I have been going over ideas for about a month now and have just starting placing images, I have lightly sketch the placement of the images.I think the back ground will be very dark. This is a whimsical oil painting.

Here is the start.

The light pencil drawing is easy to remove and try something else.

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Spotting Scammers

Have you ever gotten an email like this one?:

I'm interested in your ( Life Guard)How long have you owned it?And how much are you asking for it?please i can only pay using PayPal.email me your Paypal email or invoice antonymarcus007@gmail.com

Usually if it is a Gmail account you think you have a real person not a scammer ring not so anymore. Artist beware. Now they can only pay with PayPal looks good. A few typing errors, oh well we all make them still might be okay.

So you are thinking PayPal is safe what is the scam. I sent them a bill from PayPal with a note pay and it will go in the mail in the morning. Here is the scam:

Hello,i just got a mail from the shipping company that i will need to pay for the freighting fees before they can schedule pr-shipping/ pickup date,they charged $100 for the pick up and delivery,but the problem is they only accept Money Gram transfer as form of payment which is sent to their HQ in USA.As you are well aware of that i don't have access to my bank account online,but i have it attached to my Pay pal account.That's why am using Pay-pal payment,most post offices have Money Gram section,will it be OK with you if I include the fee together with the amount I am transferring? and as soon as the money goes through you can help me make the freighting fees through Money Gram transfer? You are not obliged to help me, but i will indeed appreciate your help as I am a little incapacitated here. Cheers.

Don't fall for it.


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Plein Air Painting,How the site is important

 I do both studio and Plein air painting. If studio space is a problem for you Plein Air painting is the answer. You have the great out doors for you studio. When you go out to paint Site selection is important. I often drive around looking for great spots to paint in the future.

Site selection is one of the most overlooked steps. Just because a scene is beautiful or interesting doesn’t necessarily mean it will translate well into a painting.

 Because nature fills our subjects with resplendent color and light, it’s easy to assume that any scene will become a beautiful painting. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

 The three-dimensional “reality” that we see at the actual location and the two-dimensional reality of our painting are two different things. Nature always looks “right” because it’s real and we see it in three dimensions. A painting, though, is a constructed illusion. For a painting on a flat picture plane to be “readable” and suggest depth, its shapes and colors must distinguish themselves from one another and the painting must incorporate as many spatial cues as possible.

Crystal River

My interpretation of nature.

About This Painting:

Crystal River
5x7 oil painting
plien air

Media: oil painting

Size: 7 in X 5 in (17.8 cm X 12.7 cm)

Price: $100 USD

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How to stay motivated with you art

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." (Albert Einstein)

I have a vivid imagination but sometimes I lose the strength to keep going. All it takes is a few negative comments on my art a week or two of no sales and I have lost my magical glow. How do I get that spark going again? A soft warm kitty hug helps but I still need more.

I am a full time self employed artist. I spend 90% of my day in my studio alone. In the summer I have yard work and a ton to other demands on my time but I still have to log the hours in the studio. I become overwhelmed. I get up at 5 go to bed at 12 and still everything does not get done.Its hard to stay creative and motivated when you are tired.

1. Allow yourself a day of rest.


“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.” Michelangelo




2. Sell some artwork!

 Nothing more motivating than selling some of your artwork. It’s immediately gratifying and motivational that other people find value in your artistic expression. How? List a few pieces on Ebay, enter some local shows, add some Paypal buttons to your website, try newsletter art marketing, contact friends who might be interested and join social media sites. There are tons of things you can do to sell more of your work. Just realize it doesn’t happen automatically. YOU initiate the conversations that result in sales. Once you see that $500 (or whatever) in your PayPal account or an email inquiry to purchase one of your works you will be motivated beyond belief to create more and more work to sell.

Put something small or that has been in stock forever on ebay auction at 1.00 its fun to watch the bidding.


3. Daily Routines and be a self starter
When I feel deflated like an old red balloon. I just keep  to my daily routines. This is hard for me right now I have lots of interruptions so I must push on and try to get those routines back.

4. Don't wait for inspirations just say I am going to paint " pick a number" of paintings this week and painting. DON'T JUDGE JUST PAINT.

5. Organize your studio
I find when things get messy I lose my motivation. Today I clean my studio.

Let me know what helps motive you.

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Tangerine Painting Demo

This is a quick painting demo of a tangerine on a plate.

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Daffodil Painting Demo

This painting of Daffodils was done Alla Prima as is much of my work. I think Alla Prima paintings look more spontaneous. I start with a thinner base color thin add thicker paint as I work to define the subject, I always start with a darker value base and add lighter paint in areas over it. Using the darker under painting for objects that are behind and lighter over painting for objects in front.


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Improving your art by telling a story

 Filling the Frame

1. Central subject adds interest

2. Eliminate unnecessary background clutter

3. Know what story you want to tell

4. Filling the frame allows you to show texture and detail

5.  Create drama with your subject to tell your story

6. Fill the frame or crop your image to tell a better story

Sometimes I paint the same subject several times to find the best way to tell my story.

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Persimmons painting demo

Still life painting demo.

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Video on painting Half an Apple in oils

This was a small daily painting that did. I have gone over a few of the steps that I used in making the painting.

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Daily Paintings Done in Feb 2016

Here are a few of the daily paintings I did in Feb of 2016.

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Avocado No. 3

Avocado No.3

About This Painting:

Avocado No. 3
24x24x1.5 inch
oil painting on gallery wrapped stretched canvas

Media: oil painting

Size: 24 in X 24 in (61 cm X 61 cm)

Price: $600 USD

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Watermelon Painting Tutorial

The processes I use when painting.

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Getting Ready to Paint

Getting ready to paint:
1. Start with paint already set up on your palette. I paint everyday so paint is out and ready to go. If you don't paint everyday or you are a plein air artist then pop your palette in deep freeze. Take it out a half hour before your ready to paint an viola you are ready to go.

This is my left over paint and palette set up from last night. I will add some fresh paint and be ready to start today. I have a few piles of left over mix that I will use also.

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Pepper painting Demo

Chili Pepper

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Jan 2016 Daily Painting review

Both watercolor and oil painting done in Jan 2016.

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Blue Crab Painting Demo

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Be a Risk Taker

"Every good painter paints what he is." Jackson Pollock"

Take a risk, get out of your comfort zone to make a living as an artist you must be a risk taker.

Most artist are not skilled in all areas of Art Business, yes I said business. You must think of your art as a business, here are some of the skills you will need to develop if you do not already have them:

1. Accounting
Good book keeping is a must. I know to many artist that have no idea on how much cost is involved in the sale of their art. They are just so excited about selling something they never consider the canvas cost more then what they sold it for.

2.Marketing
Selling yourself and your art, just because you made it and its great truly great doesn't mean anyone will ever see it.

3. Tax preperation
You will need to keep good monthly expense and sales records whether you prepare your taxes or someone else does. Become familiar with what are legal  deductions and what are not.

4. Sales
This includes selling and pricing your work.

5.Planning
Planing your studio,yearly expenses,shows,goals,education,marketing and much more. I know when I first started I had no idea that in order to get into an art fair  you had to apply months in advance. I also had no idea of the cost to do these shows. Start your research now.

When it comes to marketing artist have so many excuses as to why they just can not do it.
Here are a few:

1. I still work at a full time job
2.I don't know how to price my work
3.I'm really shy
4. It sounds like bragging to talk about my own work
5. The art market is is full
6. I don't have business abilities
7. True artist are not in it for the money

If you believe any of these you will get nowhere. To make a living as an artist you must be a risk taker.

Be prepared to take rejection it's part of life. Just keep trying and you will find your niche.

As an artist you have two jobs: 1.Creating wonderful amazing art and 2. Marketing your art.

So start today with a plan and make some amazing art.











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Are you Tired of Dreaming? or Do you Dream Big?

I'm tired of... “I'm tired of dreaming. 
I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after.”

 - Bono (1960-), Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, businessman, and philanthropist

I will have to admit that I'm a big dreamer, but I make my dreams real by going after things that I want with goals that are all most dreams but with work can be reached.

How about you are you tired of dreaming? Well if you are a dreamer like me....Let's Dream Big!

“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.” – James Allen

Orange Still Life No.4

About This Painting:

Orange Still Life No.4

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Find Your Voice

 “Finding your voice,” your unique way to let the world know you exist. Some do this naturally and become entertainers, politicians or whatever. Others struggle to express themselves, but winners eventually find a way.Be a winner,find that voice that is truly you.
Moving From “Copycat” You to Truly You
Finding your artist voice can only happen when you decide to make the leap from “copycat” you to being truly you.
In developing your artistic style, it is best to make sure all aspects of your being are lined up with your art.

1. Start by doing the brush miles. Paint get to work and keep painting every day.

2. Always use positive self talk, you are what you say you are.

3.Journal in words and in pictures: write it, draw it,paint it. I just ran across an old travel journal I did wow, I looked at those sketches and couldn't believe they were mine, They were quick good colorful unstressed a reflective joy.

4. Dream Lofty dreams

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.” – James Allen

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Shades of Gray

Shades of Gray,birds

About This Painting: Last year early on a rainy morning I stopped at a very visible street light when I was taken away at how the colors of light looked against the dreary gray of the sky. I knew right then that I would paint that light against the gray of the sky because it is stuck in my head. 

When the light turned and I was just about to head off on a day of to do's ,I looked to the right and as far as I could see into the gray mist of the morning rain  a line of birds just sitting there dripping in the light morning rain waiting. I knew that I would paint those birds again and again because they also became stuck there in that foggy place in my head where images sleep and magic happens right there tucked away for an artist.

Shades of Gray
12x9 inch watercolor on 140 lb watercolor paper

Media: watercolor

Size: 9 in X 12 in (22.9 cm X 30.5 cm)

Price: $35 USD

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Thought and Observations on being an Artist

Thoughts and Observations on being an Artist

Sometimes when you look at that blank canvas it can be overwhelming, where to start,what idea,and nothing is there. You are as blank as the canvas.

Where do I do when the well seems dry? For me a run or yoga are always good to get the blood going to the mind and wake it up.

Here are a few ideas for you:

1. Keep and idea journal
2. Keep folders of pictures
3. find ideas and great art on pinterest
4.Don't ever wait for inspiration, just do it
5. Have a daily routine, it really works. When I started doing a small daily painting it was a difficult task but it became one of the best thing I ever did for myself as an artist. The routine of finishing a painting everyday forced me to become organized and prepared.
6.Venture outside of your comfort zone, be a rebel spirit.
7. Take notes on your Iphone when ideas come to you.

Shades of Gray,birds

About This Painting: Last year early on a rainy morning I stopped at a very visible street light when I was taken away at how the colors of light looked against the dreary gray of the sky. I knew right then that I would paint that light against the gray of the sky because it is stuck in my head. 

When the light turned and I was just about to head off on a day of to do's ,I looked to the right and as far as I could see into the gray mist of the morning rain  a line of birds just sitting there dripping in the light morning rain waiting. I knew that I would paint those birds again and again because they also became stuck there in that foggy place in my head where images sleep and magic happens right there tucked away for an artist.

Shades of Gray
12x9 inch watercolor on 140 lb watercolor paper

Media: watercolor

Size: 9 in X 12 in (22.9 cm X 30.5 cm)

Price: $35 USD

How to Purchase:

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A New Year and Time for Action

"It takes considerable knowledge just to relize the extent of your ignorance" Thomas Sowell





1. What about your art make it's special?
2. Who is following my work?
3. What age  is your target audience.
4. Who are my best clients?
5. What are the current trends?
6.A good plan will lead you in small easy steps.
7. Develop a signature style.


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Looking for Love in All the Right Places, The real job of art

When setting your goals for the year think about these things:

1. Start small and build a following one collector at a time.

2. You can choose a niche or look for a pattern in your current collectors.

3. Turn your passion into your art.Sailing,Flower Gardening,golfing,Landscape painting and find collector who have a similar passion.What makes you you?

4.Look at a lot of art , where does your work fit how is it unique?

5.Be a Big Fish in your small niche pond.

6. Be all you can be, take advantage of small opportunity as they come to you. The grass is not greener somewhere else.Click those ruby slippers together and repeat after me there is no place like home.We all want to find the right collector, ones who appreciate our art as much as we do.They are the ones who give us the freedom to be as creative as possible.You don't have to change for them like in "Bridget Jones Diary" they will like you just the way you are.

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The Job of Being an Artist : Focus

Staying Focused on your Art



"Insanity," said Albert Einstein, "is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

You can not be everything to everybody.Ask yourself who is your audience? If you answer everyone, you are in big trouble. Your goal is to have a narrow and deep target and focus your work like an arrow on that target. The thing that really lights up your life is what make you happy will attract a market a new audience for that .

When you focus your efforts on a specific area you'll see your results multiply faster. Get outside of the label..."I'm a Painter".What else are you?

You must know who your are, what your art is, and what direction you want to take it before you can promote yourself. Concentrate on your strengths, find your happy place and create your art from there it will show in your work and audience will love it.

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Is your Real Job "Being an Artist?"

It's a New Year

Time for review, time for goal setting, and time to ask yourself some questions.

Is your real job " Being an Artist".

Here are a few questions to ask yourself:

1.How important do you think an artist's web site is? So, you want your artwork to get attention. How long does it take for people to notice your work? How visible is your work to the public? If you want the public to see your work, a web site is one of the first things to make your artwork visible to the public. Every serious professional artist knows that.

If you don't have a web site, why not? As a professional artist, you need to have a web site. There are more reasons to have a web site than to NOT have one. (I suggest you try FASO.)

Okay now you are getting your art notice, what next:
Let's just be frank - as an artist trying to get your art out to the world and into galleries, you are going to run into some rejection.

 Few artists have found success in the art world without first enduring failure. Not every gallery is going to see the merit of your work, and some of them are going to be pretty forthright in telling you what's wrong with it.

You're going to have to face some "no's" to get to that much anticipated "yes." As an artist, you would be well served to begin developing a thick skin. Don't let criticism or rejection stop you from pursuing your passion.

Remember, any opinion given by a gallery owner or director is just that, an opinion.Look, not everyone's going to like you (or me). That's reality. Different strokes for different folks. But if you want to create anything meaningful in this world, it's important to develop your own winning strategy for handling criticism. Both tactically and emotionally.

This is the first in a series of being an artist.

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Art Prize 7 starts tomorrow and Winery art show

Art Prize 7 PLAN YOUR VISIT ArtPrize is a radically open international art competition decided by public vote and expert jury that takes place each fall in Grand Rapids.

 I will be showing "SONG OF POPPIES".

 For 19 days, art entries from all over the world cover three square miles of downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan-and it's all free and open to the public. Click here toread more. 


To view my work and locationclick here. Song of Poppies will be on display at :Plaza Towers Apartments 201 w Fulton St Grand Rapids, MI 49503 Sept 23- Oct 11, 2015. 

I hope to see you there. 

 Song of the Poppies 

I currently have a show at the Laurentide Winery located at 56 South French Road Lake Leelanau, MI 49653. 

Click here to read more aboutthewinery. My paintings will be on display there and available for sale until the first of Oct. 2015. I have many of my small 6x6 inch oil paintings at the winery along with some larger works.

Blueberries and Raspberries 6x6

 

cantaloupe 6x6 

 The fall Shows are in full swing now. I am so grateful to all of my collectors and those of you who follow my work and leave such uplifting comments to keep me motivated. This is Delilah with a Passion for Painting have a great day.

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Advice to Artist

1. There is no substitute for miles on the brush.

You can only learn to paint by painting. Nothing teaches like experience.

You can learn about painting by listening to others, reading books and magazines, and by watching teaching DVDs and videos, but it is only in the act of painting that you learn to paint. So read watch then paint...and then paint some more.




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What is Creativity?

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams 

If you don't know who Scott Adam is I am sure you are familiar with his work.He is  an American cartoonist, creator of the Dilbert comic strip

I used to think Dilbert was living my life that was in the way back machine and before I decided to move my life to next level and work at my art full time.

Snacks in my office/studio you bet and coffee all the time. All nigher yep and I love them. So no more Dilbert life he's on his own and the studio cats and I are laughing ourselves fuzzy with happiness.

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quotes to make you think

"Go not to the object; let the object come to you," (Henry David


 Thoreau) or "There is no art without contemplation," 


I am always thinking and reading. I listen to audio books while  

paint to get just a little more out of my day. There is never 

enough time to do all. I find ways so  that I can stretch my 

day where I can.

I let my watercolors dry between glaze coats while I'm on 

the computer.

What do you do to add just a little more value to your day?To 

make the object come to you?


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The Art Sprit

I am always amazed when I wake up in the morning and go to daily painters web site or daily paint works on how many artist had the same idea of what to paint that day but in how differently each handle their idea. I think there are many ways to paint an orange as there are oranges and artist combined.

So do not paint what you have seen and think should be your inspiration but be yourself.

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Oh, Bad Delilah

The simple fact is that people will become loyal, trusting potential buyers of you and your work when they know they are dealing with a human, especially one with flaws like them.

When you show more of who you are, you are morphing into the product. The product is not just your work and your skills. You are the full package. And that is what people invest in – their time and their money.

I know this but I don't share. I need to do more of this; if you are an artist like me you also need to do this. So today I am making a change a commitment to share more. To show more of the process and the frustration of being a one woman show. The creator,the marketer ,the book keeper,and the self motivator. 

Have a bright and sunny day and paddle your way into a great year of painting

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Art is Imagination at its best

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." (Albert Einstein)


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Life is short

"Ars longa, vita brevis" "Art is long, life is short." (Hippocrates)



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Fly with your Dream

Tony Anony - From the Dreams category:
We beautiful creatures born in mystery / Fly best on wings of dreams. (Tony Anony)



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Demo of Beach Swimmer

The Swimmer

About This Painting:

The Swimmer
10x8 inch on a canvas panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 8 in X 10 in (20.3 cm X 25.4 cm)

Price: $200 USD

How to Purchase:

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Price: $200 USD plus $12 USD s/h

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Fun Products for the Arts

Product of the Month Hey watercolor painters, did you know that you can permanently fix your watercolor paintings?


This may not be overly important if you frame them under glass, but if you are like me you may want to mount them on a canvas or a wood panel. If you need a good fixative that is non-aerosal and made with all natural ingredients, try SpectraFix. 

I use it in a pump bottle with a couple of light coats on the painting. No odor, no mess - it just works. You can use it on watercolor paintings, pastel, graphite, charcoal, colored pencils or nearly anything else. Give it a try and see how you like it. Pump bottle of Spectra-Fix

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Painting Demo

10 x 8 inch

oil painting

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Humor for the New Year

The Four Stages of life: 

 1.'You believe in Santa Claus

2. You don't believe in Santa Claus

3.You are Santa Claus

4.You look like Santa Claus'

Santa Chicken

About This Painting:
Santa Chicken
12x9 watercolor on 140 lb cold pressed watercolor paper.

Media: watercolor
Size: 9 in X 12 in (22.9 cm X 30.5 cm)
Price: $100 USD

How to Purchase:

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Painting Demo of Peaches

Peaches and Crab Apples

About This Painting:

Peaches and Crab Apples
8x10 oil painting on a canvas panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 10 in X 8 in (25.4 cm X 20.3 cm)

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Panting Demo of an Orange Still life in Oils

Today I am doing a painting demo of an Orange. The still life is simple and the painting has lots of think paint and great warm colors.

Orange Still Life No. 6

About This Painting:

Orange Still Life No.6
8x10 inch oil painting on canvas panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 10 in X 8 in (25.4 cm X 20.3 cm)

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Apples and Grapes painting Dmeo

Today I have a painitng demo of apples and Grapes for you. I hope you enjoy it.

Apples and Grapes still life

About This Painting:

Apples and Grapes
Oil painting on canvas panel 8x10

Media: oil painitng

Size: 10 in X 8 in (25.4 cm X 20.3 cm)

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The Fear of Making It.

“The paralysis that comes from the fear of making a mistake is often the mistake…” 
 - Jason Hirschorn,
As they say, just do it. I always tell myself if I paint it they will come. It's my field of dreams.



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Oil Painting demo Landscape with Sunflowers

Today I am painting a field of sunflowers. In this quick over view you will see how I work from back ground to foreground. I hope you enjoy this video.
The painting is done in oils on an 8x10 canvas panel.

About This Painting:

Sunflower Field
8 x 10 oil painting on panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 10 in X 8 in (25.4 cm X 20.3 cm)

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Painting demo

Today's painting demo is of a mountain landscape with flowers blooming in the spring.

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If You've never failed you have never lived

With the Holidays coming up  like a fright train coming around the bend and I know you have so much to do just like me, it can be so over whelming. You feel like everyone else does it better, gets more done, and just seems to win when you fail.




Fell better now? I know I do.


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Drawing the head demo

If your like me and drawing or painting the head is difficult here is a quick tutorial on how to draw the head. I can always draw it when the person is looking at mme but how do you do it when they are turned and you only see part of one of the yes ? How do you get that head tilt right?

I've been working on a painting for days try to get the shadows and tilt of the head just right. So I know how difficult it can be.

I hope this helps.

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Creating art is not a bus ride to easy street.

Creating art is not a bus ride to "easy street".


What's your BIG idea? What challenges and excites you? What takes your breath away, keeps you up at night, makes you smile all day long?

Sometimes it's "distant and far away," but it's in there! Find it, dust it off, honor it. Pursue it! People will join you and things will unfold in amazing ways. Dream bigger dreams and take action. It's what makes life worth the living!

But here’s the thing: starting a business is always a lot harder than you think. More important is that you must think of your art as a business.You just need to know that it is, so that when you do go through harder moments, you can tell yourself that that is to be expected, and so you drive through it.

Successful creatives push through the pain because they know it is ‘supposed’ to be hard work. Then the rewards really do come.


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Painting Demo Venice

Today I take my paint brushes to Venice to paint the Gondolas on the canal. Bring your paints and come along with me.

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Painting Demo, Dogwood flowers

Dogwood Flowers

About This Painting:

Dogwood flowers
8x10 oil painting on canvas panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 10 in X 8 in (25.4 cm X 20.3 cm)

Price: $200 USD

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The Artist Mind those that expect receive

The artistic mind, flowing properly, sees the world differently. Call it what you will--a Celestial moment, synchronicity, serendipity. There's a higher harmonic. It's got something to do with receptiveness and alertness. Those who expect, receive. We can leave it to the gods where it comes from. The important thing is to give in to it--allow this dream mind to run.

To allow for creative flow give thought to your current processes and habits. Study your workstation for areas of awkwardness and limit them. See that things are handy.

Cut back on time-wasters -- the procedural ones and the two-footed kind. Do your work in a logical and yet creative order.

Artists are often dreaming, wondering, wandering and idling in the fanciful department. It seems that artistic types can actually "live in" a world of their own creation, perhaps preferring it to the real world, their work being an extension of it.

When I feel an artistic moment coming on,I surrendering to the need to make something and I don't need time wasters getting in the way of my creative flow.

Success as an artist means having freedom. Freedom to follow your nose. You need freedom in order to create, and you need creativity in order to pay the price for your freedom.

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Does the IRS think you are an artist

Does the IRS consider you an artist?
If you say you are an artist, but you make little money from selling your art, can your work be considered a profession in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service?Read more on this

In this rough environment it is hard to make a living as an artist. As artist it is very important to write your yearly business plan and keep proper documents of shows and expenses. Document shows applied for and not accepted, accepted shows, update you resume with awards received , keep your website current, and send out monthly news letters.

This is all part of the business of being an artist. I know not the part we like but the must do list of things to start each day with.





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Dream a little dream

Artists are often dreaming, wondering, wandering and idling in the fanciful department. It seems that artistic types can actually "live in" a world of their own creation, perhaps preferring it to the real world, their work being an extension of it.

I know I am a dreamer a believer in all things are possible.Live your dreams.Dream a little dream live a big one.


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Candy Corn Painting Demo

Candy Corn

About This Painting:

Candy Corn
oil painting on canvas panel 7x5

Media: oil painting

Size: 5 in X 7 in (12.7 cm X 17.8 cm)

Price: $50 USD

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A Busy Sept for a Daily Painter

September was a busy month with Gallery Shows and events, but I still managed to paint every day.I have been working larger lately. I still do the small daily paintings but not as many of the 5x7 . I have been doing more 8x10 because I am also a Plein Air painter and I use a cigar box easel in the field. Here are a few of the paintings I did in Sept 2014.


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Painting Demo Snow Angels

Snow Angels

About This Painting:

Snow Angels
8x10x3/4 oil painting on stretched gallery wrapped canvas with painted sides

Media: oil painting

Size: 10 in X 8 in (25.4 cm X 20.3 cm)

Price: $200 USD

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Painting Demo of a Lemon, daily painter

The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato 

Lemon still life 1.00 Auction

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh

About This Painting:

A Lemon
5x7 oil painting

Media: oil painting

Size: 7 in X 5 in (17.8 cm X 12.7 cm)

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Painting Demo of a Strawberry

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” - Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), Author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University

Raspberries and Strawberry

    About This Painting:

"After the first brush stroke, the canvas assumes a life of its own; at this point you become both governor and spectator to your own event." (Anonymous quote from our Resource of Art Quotations, provided by Derek Franklin, the reigning "King of Quotes.")

Raspberries and Strawberry
5x7 oil painting on canvas panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 7 in X 5 in (17.8 cm X 12.7 cm)

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Olive Painting Demo

I broke this demo up into two parts to be able to show more detail of how I work.


Part two of the Olives

Olive Still Life

About This Painting:

Olive Still Life
10x8 oil painting on a canvas panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 8 in X 10 in (20.3 cm X 25.4 cm)

Price: $200 USD

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Passion , Obsession,Compelling Addiction

Art has the power to make you think, elevate your emotions, and transport you through time and space.

The word passion comes from the Latin patior, meaning to suffer or to endure. These days, losing its uncomfortable roots, passion is a feeling of unusual excitement, enthusiasm or compelling emotion toward a subject, idea, person or object.

Here's how to get it: Revisit and repossess your core dreams and fantasies. Consider your dreams to be private, unique and sacred.Indulge them.

 Get help from and watch the actions of the already passionate those possessed like me. Indulge, honour and live in your own imagination. Don't talk about it, do it.
“Big, deep planning is a glamorous way of procrastinating.”

Song of the Poppies

About This Painting:

Song of the Poppies
30x40x1.5
oil painting on stretched gallery wrapped canvas
(no international shipping)

Media: oil painting

Size: 40 in X 30 in (101.6 cm X 76.2 cm)

Price: $1000 USD

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Quality is a habit.

"Art should take what is complex and render it simply,
Every painting problem comes down to four visual elements: shape, value, color and edges."

Quality is not an act, it is a habit." (Aristotle)

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