Welcome to my art blog where I post recent photos of my work and journal about my life as an artist. Although I spent my early childhood in the Catskill Mountains or New York, I now live and work in Tulsa Oklahoma. It is from my early life in the mountains that I developed a love of the natural world which now includes vast prairies and endless skies. My goal is to see and respond to the beauty that I find around me with a paint brush, paint and canvas.
Each painting required a combination of a couple of different photos. I had to swap both heads with a different body as she liked the face and hair on some of the pictures but didn’t like what they were wearing and wanted them to be more casual. If you’re going to do that you have to really be careful that both pictures have similar if not the same lighting. There’s had similar lighting and I had to fake it a little bit
