This oil painting of a skeleton pirate was a commission earlier in the year (or maybe it was even at…

It’s hard to believe it’s already been three years since I started learning to paint! I first picked up a…

I tend to practice and repeat specific themes when it comes to portrait painting. This seems to manifest itself most…

The vast majority of my oil paintings are done on Strathmore 400 series oil paper, which is a treated linen…

Perhaps I’ve finally found the solution to my massive blog post backlog. As I mentioned in my last post, I’m…

Going back in time to May 2023, here is an oil painting I did around that time based on when…

Around the time of this painting, I was thinking about how often I paint similar things. As you can tell…

This painting of a woman in a dark room is another portrait study in my efforts to practice specific areas…

When I started this painting, I had some vague notions of treating it sort of like a capstone project. Although…

I might say this too often, but the oil painting featured in this post seems to represent somewhat of a…

The subject of this post is an oil painting I did of my all-time favorite musician Mike Patton. Patton is…

The subject of this post is an oil painting I did by request of my kids – it’s a portrait…

This post is going to be about the importance of a painting’s initial structure. Basically, how the build and forms…

With this post, I want to talk a little bit about painting composition and color. At the point in time…