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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]