Taking high quality images of your artwork is a skill worth learning and can save you between $35-$100 per image capture. Over the last few years, I’ve spent a lot on digital captures, and finally learning how to do it myself has already paid for itself and is saving me money. This first post is an overview of my process, along with notes.  My next post I will take pictures of my setup, and detail more notes on taking pictures and light placement. Lastly, I will detail out the post processing steps using one of my paintings. Hopefully this journey will help you on yours

Contest Giveaway: Original "Alamo" oil painting to someone on my email list. Yep this is framed and matted.

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Today I submitted this painting "Less Traveled Route" for the CONNArtist competition at tworoadsbrewing.com

As I was doing research on Edvard Munch, I came across this post that dug deeper in The Scream. I found it useful in understanding more about the art work and how it inspired me to do my painting the way I did. 

Just submitted a few pieces of art for Absolute Vodka. Although it's for a competition, I found it to be fun to play around with different styles and techniques.

Quotes from a master

As I am working on the "Masters" series of portraits and painting Pablo Picasso, here are quotes I found interesting - "Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working." 

Exhibition Idea... 

I came across this today, and couldn't have said it better:

Welcome to The Hunger.
The Hunger to do something creative.

Just Create

Hi everyone, so I have a few different ideas of a Picasso portrait that is going to have half realistic style 1/2 the style of Picasso do you have an opinion