Today's Daily Art - Red Man

iPhone Painting: Pencil drawing, iPhone photo & Brushes App: Don’t look into his eyes to long… you may not ever come back. Happy Halloween!


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Today's Daily Art - Green Man

iPhone Painting: Pencil drawing, iPhone photo & Brushes App:
The longer I draw daily, the more I look, the more I see. These people may not look beautiful… but they are. Next time you are in the woods, find the most twisted deformed tree in the forest and you will be faced with the beauty of nature at its best. The small tree engulfed by the larger trees that keep surviving the harsh winters and continue to twist toward the light despite all the odds. There is a beauty there that must be translated to our fellow human beings. Look at these twisted souls with the same admiration and respect and your perception of our world will forever change and the world will soon follow.


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Today's Daily Art - Man in White

iPhone Painting: Pencil drawing, iPhone photo & Brushes App: I don’t have much to say about art today, there is about a foot of snow outside and the storm is continuing all day tomorrow. I love this stuff but it makes me introverted and reflective vs. talkative and social. Enjoy whatever it is you do and if you are not doing it, start today!


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Today's Daily Art - Gray Woman

iPhone Painting: Pencil drawing, iPhone photo & Brushes App: Gray Man needed someone to hang with of course.

I recently read an Art Palaver post about creating art in all areas of your life, read and watch the video http://www.artpalaver.com/. My daughter tried to get me to rap today and I failed miserably, I will stick to my daily drawings! This is what this blog is all about… do your art everyday, what ever it is. I have a fulltime (non art) job, a Wife, a Daughter, two dogs and three cats. It takes 21 days to create a habit… 21 days of daily discipline and your art is a habit in your life.


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Today's Daily Art - Gray Man

iPhone Painting: Pencil drawing, iPhone photo & Brushes App: A gray scale drawing can determine if your composition and form are powerful enough without the addition of color. Drawing and painting in gray scale as an exercise I use to strengthen my color work. I see to many pieces that rely on color to carry the piece. If you look closely, this drawing is a yin & yang. The background and foreground figure are opposites.


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Today's Daily Art - Butterfly (Oil painting in progress)

Oil Painting: I usually don’t like to show my paintings until they are done but I thought it may be interesting to show the progression of this one. The photo of this is not great but I am doing a traditional glaze painting in oil. You start with a detailed gray monochrome which is what you see here. Then, after it dries there are many applications of transparent colors that get fatter each layer, meaning; more dammar varnish and linseed oil, less paint thinner. This will give the painting a glossy rich color. The painting will take a couple of weeks and I will post the result. See “Butterfly” iPhone painting on previous blog post for an idea of where this painting is going.


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Today's Daily Art - Red Abstract

Red Abstract

iPhone Painting: This was done earlier this week but because of computer issues, just now being posted. I like going between figure paintings, nature and abstracts. It makes each discipline stronger and more versatile if you don’t stick to one style, technique and medium. Painting with your thumb is cool! Check out the two little flowers at the bottom.


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Today's Daily Art - Orange Abstract

Orange Abstract

iPhone Painting: Had computer problems and was not able to do a post for the last couple of days but I have a couple of abstract iPhone paintings to post. This was fun just playing around with form and color without the need to follow form. It is good to practice the medium with and abstract and the iPhone Brushes App is fairly versatile with its layers and transparent brushstrokes.


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Today's Daily Art - Summit

iPhone Painting: Great day in the mountains, this is a painting from the top of the mountain we climbed. I could not believe how blue the sky was.


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Today's Daily Art - Fall Leaves

iPhone Painting: pencil drawing, iPhone photo and brushes app: Back to nature! I will be going on a hike in the Colorado mountains tomorrow and should have some good stuff for tomorrows post as well. Draw everything you see that connects with you. Drawing trees are like drawing the human form, they just have less physical laws and guidelines. Enjoy!


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Today's Daily Art - Man Facing Away

iPhone Painting: pencil drawing, iPhone photo and brushes app: Sometimes exaggerating the proportions works and sometimes it does not, I don’t like the hand in this one. The way I like to look at it is, if you don’t push things to far, you don’t know how far you can go. This is true with a lot of things in life as well. If you draw every day, it is difficult to nail one each time. Don’t get married to your work. I can’t remember which master painter said this but the quote goes something like… “If you ever think you have created a masterpiece, you never will”.


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Today's Daily Art - Pink Woman

iPhone Painting: pencil drawing, iPhone photo and brushes app: Like I was trying to say in yesterdays post, if you let the drawing go, you never know where it may take you, this one went somewhere? It is interesting! In some of my paintings, I will dramatically change the color and darkness of the extremities to see what happens in the painting. If you like or dislike the effect let me know.


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Today's Daily Art - Pink Man

iPhone Painting: pencil drawing, iPhone photo and brushes app: When I draw, I always try to observe and not think. Clever ideas can get in the way of a good drawing and you try to make too much of it, just let it go and become what it is. This is true if you are an accomplished artist or just learning to draw. Because I have studied the human form for so long, I take mental snapshots of people I see and compile them into a drawing of their own. I go for the side of the person that they don’t want others to see or the side that is on display that others turn away from. We all have that side to us, just some people don’t have the ability or don’t care to cover it up. Look at them a little different next time, they are more like you then you think.


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Today's Daily Art - Friends

iPhone Painting: pencil drawing, iPhone photo and brushes app: My 9 year old daughter had her friend over this weekend and this is a quick sketch of the two of them. I like to show kids every step of what I am doing when I draw. Her friend happens to be a very gifted artist since she was a very little girl. I hope to add just that much more of a spark to her already gifted life. I change my style when working with kids and make it easy for them to follow and not get to out there.


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Today's Daily Art - My Butterfly

iPhone Painting with Brushes: I rarely do fantasy but this one is for my 9 year old daughter. She just recovered from surgery on her mouth and nose and I wanted to do a painting of her emerging as a butterfly. This is the sketch I will use for an oil painting. It is nice to be able to sketch in color like this to work the colors prior to starting the painting. I will post the results of the painting but it will take a while, I will be doing a glaze painting and it will need to dry between multiple coats.


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Today's Daily Art - Forest

iPhone Painting: The first real cold day of the season took me to my magical forest. The way I look at art, even for these quick daily drawings and paintings is; if your experience of painting is a powerful experience then the mark left behind may capture some of the power. Enjoy!


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Today's Daily Art - Sitting Man

iPhone Painting: Sketch on paper, iPhone photo and brushes app: There have been discussions about making money with your art on blogs and facebook lately. I think a concentration on the money side can be a distraction from your art if not done right. Example: If you want to paint and sculpt well, you must have a firm command of drawing. It would be like a professional football player, going out and playing football only on game day, it would not work. He must run daily drills to perfect his sport. My daily drills are these daily drawings, what is yours? When I do sit in front of a canvas to bring it all together, I am in shape and know exactly what to do. By distributing these drawings to as many people as I can, I am building awareness to what I am doing so people care to see the result of the painting or sculpture… See it…Draw it…Post it… I love it!!!

Please send this blog to anyone who would like to perfect their art… no matter what it is.

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Today's Daily Art - Aspen Forest

iPhone Painting: There is something about aspen trees that make it so much fun to paint. This is the first time I tried it with the iPhone using the brushes application but it worked. When you force yourself to create something everyday, you find yourself searching for things and observing things you would normally overlook. I have been going through my old drawings to get ideas and something always comes to me. I am loving this iPhone brushes app, it is so easy to get a finishes result!


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Today's Daily Art - Blue Man

iPhone Painting: Blue Woman needed a friend. I don’t know about you but when I look in the mirror, I don’t see a Calvin Klein ad, just see self portrait posted below. I don’t like to think of my work as nudes but nakeds. Nudes are idealistic representations of the form and nakeds are the truth. Draw what you see, not what you think others want to see and you may see for the first time!


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Today's Daily Art - Blue Woman

iPhone painting: I am really enjoying the process of drawing the image first in pencil on a drawing pad, taking a picture with my iPhone and painting with the Brushes app. This is a quick way to get the image to a finished state and easy to distribute. This can be done anywhere, so be careful, you may be my next subject, and you may not even know it. This image has a lot of strength and power to me and I hope you enjoy!


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Today's Daily Art - Man in White

iPhone painting: I missed yesterday’s daily drawing, my 9 year old daughter is recovering from surgery and she came down with the flu but much better today. I guess I am on a stretch of figure drawings these days but if anyone has a request, let me know. Something you would like to see more of and let me know if you like the direction I am going with these. Again, this is done by drawing on a sketch pad, take a picture with iPhone and complete the painting using the iPone brushes app.

If you like these drawings, look-up Egon Schiele; http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=a9_sc_1?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aegon+schiele&page=1&keywords=egon+schiele&ie=UTF8&qid=1254586935. Again the purpose of this blog is to encourage each of you to practice YOUR art everyday. Reply to this post with who inspires you, an artist, a writer, a director and include what you are doing or want to do everyday to practice your art. Better yourself everyday and you better the world!


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Today's Daily Art - Red Dress

iPhone painting: It is good to get in a grove with these daily drawings. I think the key is to not think, just do. Start the pencil moving and keep it moving. The more you do it, the better the result. Today, intense color and concentration of form can make a powerful image. If you want to draw the human form better, I would suggest finding some figure drawing classes or, some towns have artists gatherings where everyone pitches in for the cost of the models. The more you draw the human form, the more you can experiment.


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Draw every day!


Enjoy and please contact me for the following:

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