Last updated 2024-11-26.
VOS EXTRA - What's Wrong With Using Pastel Pencils?
VOS EXTRA - A Good Camera Research Site
VOS EXTRA - My Fave Pastel Box!
VOS EXTRA - The Secret to the "Glow"!
VOS Episode 194 - Supplement
VOS EXTRA - The Best Shipping App!
Mmmmm! New Terry Ludwig Set on Sale!
VOS EXTRA - Gatorboard vs Watercolor Paper
VOS EXTRA - A Bit About Rembrandts
I'm Back!! (and summer VOS schedule)
Pause to Continue through June
Billing to be Paused in March/April/May
My March/April News
VOS EXTRA - On Selling, Soliciting, Learning and Doing
VOS EXTRA - Mark Making is like Your Signature
VOS EXTRA - Things I Learned in Amusement Parks
VOS Episode 185 - Conversation Supplement
VOS Episode 183 - Conversation Supplement
VOS Schedule for January/February - Take Note!
Good News! Some Exciting Changes for 2024!
VOS EXTRA - The Quinacridone Gold Replacement Formula
VOS Episode 178 - Conversational Supplement
VOS EXTRA - Some Ideas for Daily Painting
VOS EXTRA - On Priorities, Visibility, Boredom and Creative Energy
Happy Thanksgiving!
VOS EXTRA - About Foam Board as a Support
My November News!
A Recommendation: Carol Marine's Panel Holders
VOS EXTRA - Value Relativity and Fixing Mistakes
VOS EXTRA - A Little History of my Portrait Sketches and the Paper I Like
VOS EXTRA - About Paper Value, and No Absolutes!
VOS EXTRA - Why Blend (or Not?)
VOS EXTRA - A Favorite Frame and where I get them
VOS Supplement - Simplifying Your Underpainting
VOS EXTRA - On Motivation and a Product Review
VOS Supplement - Reflected Light Explained
VOS EXTRA - What to Submit to Art Shows
My August News! Gulf Coast Workshop, 21-in-31, and More!
VOS EXTRA - Incorporating Pastels and A Table Tour
VOS EXTRA - How to make the gold primer lighter
Quinacridone pigments are no longer made!! Oh NO!
VOS EXTRA - About white things, and (NOT) using gray
MONTHLY! Critiques - How it Works!
VOS EXTRA - About The Color Wheel and Values
VOS EXTRA - Why I Like Gatorboard
VOS EXTRA - Tips on Controlling Texture
My June News!
Some New Ideas!! Give me your opinions, my Muses.
VOS EXTRA - Q&A from the Baby Hereford Paint-Along
VOS EXTRA - On Frames, Glass, Tape and Spacers
VOS EXTRA - About Simplifying your Underpainting
My April News!
VOS EXTRA - On Breaking Pastels and Finding Your Own Way
EXTRA - About Momentum, Planning, and 3 Art Festivals
VOS EXTRA - About Donkey Faces and Tangent Lines
My February News! (click the image to read)
Power outage
EXTRA - Reviews of the Heilman Box and the I ❤ Hue app
VOS EXTRA - About Color Through Zoom
I want to share this artist with you!
VOS EXTRA - About Daily Painting and DailyPaintworks.com
Holiday Blessings to You!
VOS EXTRA - Pastel Pencils and a Sharpener Review
VOS Episode 131 - Intro: Conversation about art stuff
VOS EXTRA - Hmmm, can I stream from my worktable?
VOS EXTRA - "Downsize and Pump Up!"
Slowing down and enjoying life - My December news
VOS EXTRA - A Little Studio Tour featuring Shelves and Hanging Rods
Happy Thanksgiving
VOS EXTRA - Subject vs. Process
VOS EXTRA - On Photographing, Scanning, Saving and Judging Art
VOS EXTRA - Some Thoughts on Commissions and Pricing
VOS EXTRA - Advice About Art Festivals and Booth Shots
VOS EXTRA - About Glass and "Passe Partout" Framing
VOS EXTRA - A Roche Review and a Pastel Sound Test
VOS EXTRA - About Backgrounds and Color Harmony
EXTRA - A Little Pastel Review and Application Tips
Balloon Fest! (Pics for you)
VOS EXTRA - A Light Touch? It Depends...
VOS EXTRA - How to Sneak Up on a Cow
Yay! 21-in-31 Complete!
VOS Extra - My Color Instinct and It's OK to Make Mistakes!
VOS EXTRA - Why Turquoise Works on White Animals
My August News!
EXTRA - On Daily Painting, "Real" Jobs, Creativity vs. Skill, Etc.
EXTRA - About Performance Pressure and my Copy Instinct
EXTRA - About Value, Color, and Experimenting
EXTRA - On Glitches, Impressionism, Artists and Goals
Rita Kirkman's Workshop Prep - Priming Your Surface
My July News!
2022 IAPS PastelWorld Exhibit Walk-Through with Richard McKinley
IAPS 2022 - The "Candy Store" (and a Royal Talens discount!)
2022 IAPS Paint Around
EXTRA - About the Gloves I Use and Where to Get Them
VOS Episode 105 - Composing with Photoshop - The Donkeys
EXTRA - Packaging Unframed Originals and Selling Cheap!
EXTRA - How to Discover Your Fave Pastels!
3 Basic Learning Styles (and why my Patreon is how it is.)
EXTRA - Color Relativity and the 80's Color-aids
EXTRA - Misc Business Tips and a painting pep talk
Quick Links! My PATREON INDEX, and VOS Schedule!
EXTRA - About knowledge, talent, and bragging on our kids
EXTRA - The Benefits of Continuity
A Very Useful Tutorial from PSA - What to Submit to the Annual Exhibition
EXTRA - A New (used) Pastel Show and Tell!
My May Art Newsletter!
A Hint About my New Patreon Index Page (Coming Soon!)
EXTRA - Some Casual Chat About Animals
EXTRA - A Camera Review and Website
Pastel Care and Framing Tips - Info I send to Collectors
VOS EXTRA - About Repeating the Same Subject
VOS EXTRA - Staying Fit, Traveling and an Airbnb Adventure!
EXTRA - A Short History of my Quick Sketch Portrait
VOS EXTRA - About Shadow Angles
What to do about Goopy Primer?
What is Impressionism?
About safe storage, framing, and tape
EXTRA - About the Foam Sponge I Paint With
Got Goals?
EXTRA - Origins of my Underpainting Method
VOS EXTRA - A Little Tour of my Clean Studio!
EXTRA - How to Paint when you're Not in the Mood!
The Turner Exhibit at the Kimbell
EXTRA - A Tiny 15 Minute Framing, from Episode 5
Musings on Daily Painting
More on Value and Temperature...
VOS Episode 63 - SUPPLEMENT
Packing a Small Framed Pastel Painting
VOS Episode 58 - Supplement, On Color Harmony
Guest for Q&A after the NODG session - Thursday
Daily Painting Challenge Group, on Facebook!
Does an Artist Need a Website?
VOS Episode 45 SUPPLEMENT, on Photoshop editing
Pastel Table Tour - A Lesson on Value and Temperature
Our Power is Back (still Waiting for Water)
It's FREEZING!
VOS Episode 38 - Supplement
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!
Breaking out of the Creative Rut
Happy Thanksgiving!
VOS Episode 30 - Conversation Supplement
Your opinion needed - Daily Paintings and Early Access
On Judging Shows...
My Virtual Booth at the Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival
Talk to me! 😀
Getting Ready for the WWAF - with free interior photos
VOS Episode 16 - Supplement
VOS Episode 19 - Q&A Supplement
VOS Episode 5 - On Framing Pastels (the mattless methods)
Recommended online mat supplier
VOS Episode 12 - Supplement
VOS Episode 13 - Supplement
VOS Episode 11 Supplement - About Foam Sponge
VOS Episode 10 - Conversation Supplement
Background Binds (What to Do?)
VOS Episode 7 - Photoshopping!
Some general Zoom instructions...
Virtual Open Studio test day #3 - Part 2
An update on sales tax
Virtual Open Studio test day #2
Scan Pastel Paintings for Better Prints