You can see the light pencil guidelines which I made with a 4H pencil.  I begin with the sky area and while it’s drying I lay in the shadow side of the building letting warm and cool [...]

Now it’s just a matter of working back and forth from distance to middle ground to foreground as I start to bring the painting into focus reserving my darkest darks until last.A lot of [...]

I love this little chapel in Pine Valley Utah and I have painted it several times. This is how it appeared some years ago. There are a number of big evergreens that were planted and have grown up [...]

I loosely lay in the distant foothills and start to establish the green trim around the windows on the shadow side. Now I’ve got my whole range of values from light to dark, which will [...]

I now move forward and develop the big old Cottonwood tree in the foreground and a few of the shrubs on the ground. You can see that I am using negative painting to leave a few of the tree [...]