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Wedding Portraits

by [email protected] | Jun 26, 2021 | Art Instruction, Motivational, Portraiture

As you know, I create portraits for every occasion. Wedding are a beautiful time in our lives and there is no better way to remember that awesome experience than with an oil portrait. Find out about my wedding portraits and the many ways we can devise to express the...

Seeing What We Want to See

by [email protected] | May 17, 2021 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, World View

Inattentional Blindness – Falling for the Trick We’ve all seen them on the internet. I’m talking about those amazing chalk drawings on sidewalks that look 3-D. Or those optical illusions that make things appear differently than they really are. These...

Drawing vs Copying

by [email protected] | May 12, 2021 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture

Looking Deeper I sometimes comment in FB groups, offering my humble critique, when asked. Here’s what I offered for this drawing on the left. Honestly, there is a huge difference between drawing and copying a photo. So much of what I see in this group is copying....

The Power of Positive Painting Story

by [email protected] | May 5, 2021 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, World View

People thought I was crazy trying to create a system that would make drawing and painting available to anyone who applied themselves, what I call the “democritization” of art. That was the goal, to distil the processes of master realists and combine them...

The P3 Movement

by [email protected] | Mar 6, 2021 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, World View

Guilty, as charged! But fortunately #forgiveness awaits, with the #purchase of @ThePowerofPositivePainting. #Learn to #draw and #paint. As a frequent art competition juror in the 1990s and 2000s, I noticed roughly over 80% of the representational entrants at local art...

Hue-based Society

by [email protected] | Mar 4, 2021 | Art Instruction, Motivational

We live in a hue-based society. Most artists have an unhealthy addiction to hue. Our obsession with color, specifically the hue of a color, undermines our ability to see form objectively. The Power of Positive Painting, my 157 page full color book, is an an effort to...

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