Does anyone else see the baboon’s face in this painting?? Here’s a display of the canvases in the Arctic Room from a couple days ago. (Most of them have already changed now!) I like the variety of color in the various backdrops. There is a styrofoam box lid there, too. Someone told me that it […]

A few of you have asked why I call my painting space the Arctic Room. The short answer is that it’s the coldest room in the house. It is a smallish, underground room that I’ve made my own for the purpose of imagination. The map on the wall is a map of the Yukon and […]

This is the result of simply moving the brush around on a mix of blue acrylic paint and red acrylic paint on a white canvas. It looked like this (below) when I started out. I was surprised and pleased with the look of this one, so I’ve decided to keep it. (Most of my canvas […]

Here are my two latest birds from the Arctic Room. Both have a black backdrop, one on canvas, the other on sturdy paper. I find the one on the canvas especially pleasing, not because it looks like a bird, but because of the colors involved: It almost looks like fire flames. I like the two […]

I’m trying to create with pens and brushes an image with a sci-fi outer space look for the backdrop, but I haven’t yet succeeded. I came down to the Arctic Room and decided to try painting the backdrop with acrylics. Here’s my first attempt. The colors are just cobalt blue, a peach tint, and white […]

My friend D visits the Arctic Room from time to time and plays guitar while I paint. Here’s one of our first recorded spontaneous sessions together in the Arctic Room. (Just click on this link to see an edited 3 min. video ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7fITR8eyJU Tonight I’ve started a painting with vermillion green, cobalt blue, and […]

I gave the second canvas a nice, thick yellow backdrop, making it a lovely place to begin painting a new bird. It was exciting to start a new painting experiment, but the first experiement went downhill quickly. The original canvas had a really lovely picture of one of the Minions from “Despicable Me”. I painted […]

Because I’m a beginner at painting, I’ve decided to start practicing with very basic supplies that are inexpensive. This is the first canvas I’ve ever worked with, a two-dollar find at a local thrift store! I’ve simply painted over the original painting with 2 layers of non-toxic red acrylic paint, and, after just about an […]

The first two birds here are in crayon on my 2′ x 3′ drawing pad (way too big for my 8″ x 11″ scanner!). In my next post I’ll share the progress of these birds on the Arctic Room canvas in acrylics. The pencil sketch is of a Ural Owl, which I read about and […]

I need a jump start for the new year. So I’m continuing my experiments with color, today on pieces of cardboard. The acrylics and ink markers really popped against the white. The cardboard really didn’t work well with pencils or crayons. I’m trying to avoid Photoshop as much as possible for coloring. Two reasons: The […]