I'm happy to announce that my newest CD, "Songs To Paint By," is officially an Award-Winning CD! The track, "The Color of Groove," won FIRST PLACE in the 28th annual Dallas Songwriters Assn song contest.

Only one thing to say: Groovy! Oh, and that you check it out at http://lannysherwinjazzproject.com…

This month we're starting to paint flowers in the monthly online workshop. We're starting off nice and slow with a single yellow rose and the next 3 months will continue with flowers getting progressively more complex. So if you want to start painting flowers now is a great time to start. Mind you the demo video will always be available so you can start…

Hi Richard,

I see you tearing off the masking tape of your finished painting.  Do you paint on canvas board, unframed canvas, linen or birch plywood?  It looks like when I do a watercolor painting I size the paper first then tape it to my board after stretching the wet paper.

For oil painting I use a stretched canvas on a frame or paint on birch plywood.  Neither of these needs to be attached to a board.

I'm sure the answer is somewhere in one of…

It has been far too long since I have been among you guys painting and have missed it.  Life goes past too fast!  It does not seem get any slower the older one gets, in any case I seem to be forever trying to catch up with "myself".  

All the best to all of you!

Steinunn

When I visited this network this morning - after reading a message about the death of an artist, Rick Harder - after a long time and viewed the art works here, I remembered a poem I wrote in 2011. Although artists here might not be quite unknown, I felt like posting my poem here as a tribute to all the artists here. This is for you friends...

AN ODE TO UNKNOWN ARTISTS

Thousands of artists treaded this path trying to reach their goals

Creating millions of pictures…

This month's workshop focuses partly on Lost and Found Edges which to me is one of the real beauties of working with oil paints - that you can soften off or completely lose an edge whilst leaving others sharply focused, adding an air of mystery and romance to a painting.

Here's the painting we're working with:

"Old Timers" 13…

Well, its been quite a while, have been on holiday in the USA - Las Vegas, Scottsdale, Sedona, Flagstaff, Madrid, Santa Fe, Dallas and back again.

Am delighted, honoured and humbled to share that I have been signed by The Longworth Gallery in Canyon Road, Santa Fe so now have to work to that end when I get home. Goodness, life takes one in unusual but sensational directions at times.

Hope you are all well and painting up a storm! Sandi…

Painterly bulbs...

"Plein Air Still Life" 15x15" Oil on Canvas

Been painting this out on the deck for a couple of days. Boy did I feel rusty! I must have repainted that apple about 20 times. A great painter I recently met in California named Anne Ward inspired me to get busy painting still life outdoors. Very glad she did. I…

This is from a Farm in Allen, Texas.  Please visit my blog www.faisaltariq.com

I was sitting at Potbelly for lunch when I saw the TGIF building. I took a picture to paint/sketch and here it is. The painting is already too small so I couldn't squeeze in the Friday's in their sign and left it…

How exactly to glaze a painting,I am still unsure how to do this.Any pointers will help me a lot.

Britt's Blog

Just another Confectionary… 

   Hi My Friends,  Just wanted to share a fun and encouraging experience that happened this week. I had a message from a lady on my site that I didn't know. She said that her mother had recently passed away and when going through her mothers things she found a painting that had my signature and a number on the back. Did I have any information regarding the painting ?  It was a painting that I painted in 1982, one of my first oil paintings. At the time I had no experience painting and I used…

I've done a couple of workshop pictures for my own interest and learning. A couple of people have expressed interest in buying one of them but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do that since they are actually Richard's pictures/compositions. Can someone clarify this for me? Thanks