I made it!

My painting of Tux has been accepted into the 25th annual Open Juried Exhibition of the Illinois Watercolor Society.


Go me!

Check it out

At the moment this is my favorite painting at the Art Institute. The image does not do the painting justice at all. If you get a chance to go to the Institute this is the painting you should look at. I think I may love this guy more than Sargent and Sargent is my painting soul-mate. The feeling I get standing in front of this piece or one of Sargent's is the reason I became an artist. Although I did not know that feeling existed until after I already started drawing. I want people to have that feeling when they look at my stuff.

The Institute also has a photography exhibit going on right now. It blew me away. The man is a genius. I forget his name. His pictures have multiple golden sections in them and he does it over and over. It's hard enough getting a golden section in a painting, but to get it multiple in a photograph of a space that is a street or some other public area is amazing. Crazy!

Sketchbook 3

This is at Fabyan Forest Preserve in Geneva (I believe.) I had a very fun day painting with Katie. It was gorgeous. We also were in the newspaper because many artists gathered at the park for a paint out.

Sketchbook 2

This is over a couple of days. Maybe 3 or 4 hours total.

Sketchbook

This is a fountain just south of the art institute. It started raining 15 minutes into the painting, but I really like what the paint was doing.

The Best Painting In The World!!

I had the pleasure of "finding" this masterpiece. It is beautiful. If the house was on fire I would grab this painting. Anyone who disagrees is just a hater and you can't appreciate true greatness when you see it.

Some Gesture Paintings