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. ...

...for my weeping cherry tree. It's been in bloom for over a week now and is still loaded with blossoms despite some recent windy weathe...

Closeup 1 Closeup 2 I've been playing around with this painting, trying to see what effects would make this pop more. I toned down the r...

Cropped I'm still considering this a work in progress even though it looks completed albeit kinda sloppy. I want to experiment further w...

I had a drawing all set to go, then decided after seeing a dyed silk piece that inspired me to such a degree as to send me in a whole new di...