This is a new painting that i am starting for a solo show that I have in September at the Secret Fresh Gallery in Manilla, Phillipines. The drawing started out from a photo reference I took of my brother. The idea is about people who are “separate” yet connected at the root. We all come from nature, yet all to…read more →

I have been using photoshop for over 10 years, and I have found it to be such an amazing program to help me compose paintings. I do not actually draw much in photoshop, but I do scan in drawings and clean them up and render them to find out where all the volume is at in the drawing prior to…read more →

This painting is by far the largest I have ever worked on. It is 48×60 inches. This is a commission that I am hoping to have finished in the next month or 2. The idea behind the painting is having a stage set in space where a guy is floating about zombies that are trying to reach for him. I…read more →

This is not going to be that in depth of a painting. I am mainly doing this painting to help me come to a further understanding of how to layer colors correctly. I started the painting on an 18×24 inch canvas, and I covered it with a muted earth red. I trannsfered my pencil drawing over and used spray fixative…read more →

It is time for me to block in the colors. Usually when I am working on a portrait, I will do a few under paintings to help support the structure. But with a painting like this that has a lot of elements, it will be a lot nicer to start putting shapes of color together as soon as possible.

Here is the concept sketch of a new commission. It is going to be a portrait of 3 dogs and a cat in a backyard. It is 36×36 inches on canvas.

I am using oil paint. This is what my palette looks like. I am using Galkyd Slow Dry mixed with a little turpenoid for my medium. This will make sure that the layer of paint will be dry by the next day if i paint thinly enough.

To start to understand color, you need to know what it is comprised of and also how the eye takes it in. It is a difficult task to try to understand color if you are thinking that it is 1,000,000 different things. You can’t expect to understand things unless you group it together. Your mind will thank…

When I first started painting, I never really thought about a process. I just did what I did, and was happy when the image that I was imagining would finally emerge out of the chaos of colors. I had no idea the differerence between indirect and direct painting techniques…

These 2 perspectives are 2 aspects of the same thing. They rely on each other to exist; 2 sides to the same coin. They are brothers.