I've got a new piece brewing already. One of the members of my Michigan garden forum posted photos of tiny tree frogs sitting on her sha...

I just finished this a moment ago and wanted to post it so I could check for problem areas and make tweaks if necessary. The braid and the l...

Quick update: I'm happy with the garlic bulbs at this point and am getting ready to start on the braided stems. I used a mixture of blue...

Just starting to add color . So far my palette consists of cerulean blue, phthalo blue, raw umber, mauve & a tiny bit of crimson lake. I...

Last year I began refurbishing my Moon garden as it has been in need of some extra TLC for a few years. For those who have never heard of a ...

My creative juices haven't been flowing in great abundance this year and I've noticed that I'm falling backwards in terms of pai...

SOLD Done! I decided the red of the berries was enough to break up all the green. I was afraid adding burnt sienna would 'muddy up ...

Quick update: I just removed the frisket film and am wondering if there's way too much green going on here. I'm not sure the few red...

Still today I had no idea how I wanted to go about painting this or what palette I wanted to use so I started by covering the blossoms and b...

After adjustments to composition. I added an extra berry toward the center and got rid of unnecessary detail. After applying edge detection ...

My blog needed a facelift so I'm experimenting with Bloggers new templates, colors, etc. Warning: Be prepared to see some changes over t...

This is one of those paintings that I could fiddle away at for days and days but I think it's time to call it done. It's already sli...

After adding the background which defines the outer shape of the flower. Here I've gone as far as I could before adding a background. I...

The Iris Farm 5385 E. Traverse Hwy Traverse City , MI 49684 After attempting to paint another landscape and failing miserably (severa...

Here I attempted to highlight the shapes I saw when looking at the reference photo. The obvious focal point in this painting is the area of ...

Marilyn Campbell posted this photo of a beautiful wooded scene with a stream flowing through on Paint My Photo and I thought it looked like...

Original image Tweak #1 (I ramped up the contrast) Tweak #2 (Looks like a dust storm) Tweak# 3 (Tornado skies. I can almost hear the warning...

I've sure had fun with this one. I finished up the dragonflies yesterday but today thought it needed a little something else. I've h...

This project seems to defy photographing. Everywhere light strikes an area of high texture it shows up as a white spot and the colors are n...

I wanted to keep the background fairly simple but wasn't sure how dark I wanted to go so I compromised by doing a little half and half. ...