This year flew by and I haven’t even had a chance to catch my breath yet. Oddly enough, it started with a distinct lack of painting. All of the work I had put into painting and my blog had fizzled out since the end of 2019. I had experienced a lot of traumatic family hardships…
Category: Landscape
Bumps in the Road
It wouldn’t be a challenge if it was easy. I slipped up this last week and didn’t paint. I’m not sorry about it though. The holidays were here and I enjoyed a lot of time with my family. Now that they’re over for now though, it’s back to work. I didn’t post last Monday, but…
Sticking to Daily Painting
I don’t think I’ve announced it here on the blog yet, but this summer I finally got some of my art into a local shop called Moab Made. It’s a shop for local artists to sell and display their work. I feel like it’s a bit less formal than a gallery, but it works basically…
Prioritizing Art
Now that life has slowed back down to a normal pace, I think I’m going to try to be consistent with this blog again. I made a few attempts earlier this year but was already too overloaded with obligations for it to stick. Now that October is over, things are slowing down and I feel…
2021 Art Goals
Goals are important when doing any activity. They’re especially important if you intend on accomplishing anything substantial. The hard part is planning out these goals. For me especially, I’ve been struggling with the long term direction I want to ultimately go with my art. I recently met an artist and thought: “That! That is what…
To what end?
Sometimes you have to ask yourself the question “to what end?” To some extent this most recent hiatus from painting has been a crisis. It has also just been a break, a time to focus on other creative outlets. I’ve driven myself really hard the last few years to improve as an artist. I’ve had…
Painting: Use it or Lose it
Unfortunately, painting is a use it or lose it skill. After a pretty long hiatus, I’m trying to paint again and finding out that I’ve lost a lot of what I had gained over the last few years of consistent painting. All of the effortless color mixing I was doing this time last year is…
Back to Work
Hello again. It has been a minute since my last post. After taking a few months off from painting I’m finally getting back to it. I didn’t mean to take such a large break, but the stress of everything going on was really taking its toll on me. Letting myself take a break was a…
Painting for an Art Show
This painting may seem familiar to those of you following along with my Utrecht Color Theory Challenge from March 2019. I wanted to repaint this larger for the Canyon River Runners Art Show next month along with another painting that I haven’t done yet. I plan on painting the next one this next week and…
2019 Year in Review
This year was a mixed bag. It was very positive in terms of my art and getting back into the workforce and very difficult due to some unexpected losses. Overall, I’m grateful this year has finally come to a close. I’m ready for a fresh start in 2020. After nearly a decade of being a…
2019 Canyon River Runners Art Show
At the end of March I entered two of my paintings from my Utrecht Color Theory Challenge in at art show hosted by the John Wesley Powell River History Museum in Green River, Utah. Since the museum is about an hour away, it wasn’t until this week that I was finally able to visit and…
Utrecht Artists’ Oil Paints Review
*Not a sponsored post. I’ve always heard good things about Utrecht products but hadn’t ever used them myself aside from a few brushes I got years ago. Since I recently sold a few paintings, I wanted to finally replace all of my remaining student grade paints with artist grade paints and decided to give these…