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The next few blog posts will be focused on an oil painting I am producing of USS Donald Cook, a United States Navy destroyer, DDG-75. ...

I don't live far from Wegerzyn Gardens, one of a series of beautiful metro parks that are around the Dayton, Ohio area. I love to stroll...

An update on a painting I'm working on. I've purchased a new camera. Quite different than my old DSLR which only had a video resolution...

In the previous phase, I blocked in the basic structure of the painting. In this phase, I began to get a bit more into the structures of...

Grizzly Falls Oil on Canvas Block-In Part 2

In the next blog posts, I'm going to be discussing my next work. My next painting is going to be a vertical landscape painting of Grizzly...

After blocking-in and modeling the structures of the ship and ocean, I began work on the detailing phase of this painting. The detail...

I'm currently working on a color study for my work on USS Bailey (DD492) which is to be an oil painting on a 16" x 20" canvas. This color...

Since I recently finished the large oil painting of the ocean, I asked my son what airplane he'd like me to paint. I think I knew the...

This weekend I am continuing the process of refining the waves and developing their structure and color. The waves and the surf are...

After I completed the underlying layers of blue in the deeps to the aqua layers in the shallows and then the sand up to the shoreline, I...

After a while to let the cloud layers dry, I started to work on the underlying layers of the ocean. I wanted the hues to be vibrant to...

Fast forward from February when I was starting to work on this large painting, I wanted to share my work on the clouds. I didn't record...

This large 48" x 36" acrylic panel needed to be prepped for painting, The substrate was in an original state where the paint would not be...