If There's a Cure for This, I Don't Want It

Here is a time lapse of a recently completed 10" x 20" painting of bacon. This is part of my food obsessions series. In this series I am exploring my personal obsession with food. As the old joke goes, I am on a seafood diet. If I see food I eat it. It is a problem, so I decided to explore it in my art. For this series I am combining food I cannot refuse with text from popular culture dealing with abusive or unhealthy relationships - because there are many similarities and often food obsessions start out as a way of dealing with unhealthy relationships.

I create these in-between other paintings I am creating and will post them when they arrive. 

Video: Trees in Ink Workshop

You asked for it... well, actually, you didn't.  But here is the video of the Trees in Ink workshop  this last weekend at Jack-in-the-Pulpit Studio.  It was a great workshop with some really hard working artists.  We explored many techniques for using pens and brushes when creating trees in ink. Many thanks to all the students who made this fun and thanks also to Emily Samsel for the music to this video.



For more information about workshops and classes, visit www.jackinthepulpitstudio.com.

Art Lesson: Contour Line Drawing Video

Here is a short contour line drawing video.

Video: Interview with Artist Matt Wells

I sat down with Matt Wells at the Black Forest Inn to talk about his illustrations for the story Gerald Teaches a Life Lesson in The Book of Bartholomew.  Here it is:

Video: Chicken Drawing

Here is a chicken drawing for you!  The species is a Silver-Spangled Hamberg.  The original drawing will be available at my sale this weekend. 

Enjoy!!

Art Lesson: Simple Composition tools

Here is a quick video on simple tools for framing or composing the subject in front of you that you will be drawing/painting. I made this video for an online course Beginning Drawing: Botanical that I will be offering later this month.

Video: Painting a Chicken

First - boil two quarts of water...
Here is a video of me painting a chicken. This video is too fast to notice, but as I was putting the final touch on the beak, a drop of turps ran down off the collar of the brush onto the canvas and I had to spend another fifteen minutes fixing it. Enjoy!

Video: Painting a Kalanchoe

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