Redneck Easel

What do you do if you're painting outside and you don't have a seat, taboret, or easel?  You get some ladders.

Pig Maquette

Here is one of the shots of the pig maquette I used for the three pigs painting. Natural light is almost always the best for lighting an outdoor scene. Note the blue reflection of the sky in the upwards facing planes in shadow as well as the warm reflections of the ground in the downward planes.

children's theatre brochure

Here's how the pigs appear on the promotional brochure.  If I get a hold of the playbill cover i will post that in the future.

http://www.thebroadwaytheatre.org/index.php

The Dangers of Plein Air Painting

This tree branch almost crushed me this summer while I was painting some other trees.  The locust tree I was under may have been jealous.

Three Little Pigs

Soon to be published illustration of the three little pigs for The Broadway Theatre of Pitman, NJ.  It will appear as a playbill cover for the 2011 children's theatre production of ... you guessed it... The Three Little Pigs.

oil on masonite   13.75x11 inches

What is a blog?

I was told that blog is a blend of the words web and log.  I prefer webl.  Welcome to my webl.

For my first post I present this en grisaille oil painting by Howard Pyle.  Tonal illustrations of this era were a necessity for printing purposes, and as a result many illustrators of the time were masters of tone.  With the transition to color printing, these same artists were able to apply this knowledge in creating tonally sound color illustrations.