28Dec
Just a quick notice… On occasion, there has been some confusion about surfaces of miniature painting, how paint is applied or the surface itself. I’ve posted a small article about surfaces and surface textures in miniature painting that some may find informative and helpful.
The article can be seen here.Or, if you prefer,
visit the article index here.
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05Jun
A quick note - ArtsWOM, a British blog for the arts sponsored by Sky Arts (Sky TV network), posted a very nice review of my artwork and blog as their "Showcase Pick" on June 4th - see it here. A big "thank you" to them! 
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17May
This is the progress of the three fox kit miniature paintings in my studio right now. I have a lot of the detail on the foxes themselves painted in already, though I’m not completely finished with them yet. For the commission, I am fortunate to have no set deadline, so I am able to set these pieces in my studio and study them and determine how to proceed to completion. (Though, I am eager to see them proceed as are a number of my blog visitors.) I am not quite sure how I would like to complete the logs in two of the paintings - what lichens or mosses to add, etc. I have done some research for the paintings recently during a short research trip with my family (to be posted soon) and may also bring some of the local forest habitat into my studio for reference to paint from life.
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10May
These are a few scans of some of the recent progress on the fox kit miniatures that I’m painting (one of them is a commissioned work - the inspiration for the collection). In my studio right now, they are farther into the color stages than what is shown here - I should have some more complete scans of them to post soon.
The sketches for these pieces can be
found in this post.
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09May
This past weekend my family and I held our annual spring wildlife art show at the Saint Croix Carpenter Nature Center. Our art shows are held in the spring and late fall at the nature center’s Trailside Lodge or Visitor Center (this show was in the Visitor’s Center). This year the University of Minnesota’ Raptor Center held their spring raptor release at the nature center also - releasing a rehabilitated American bald eagle, a broadwing hawk, and two red-tail hawks back to the wild on Saturday.
These snapshots of our art show are during one of the quieter moments on Saturday. Thanks to everyone that dropped by to see us!!
(The artwork in the second photo are all original works - we had a number of larger originals on display this year as well.)
(This is my mobile studio at the show. )
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04May
This is a larger painting that I was working on a little earlier this week. It’s a 20" x 30" watercolor of a bull elk, titled "Passage". This piece developed pretty rapidly. I painted a study for this larger painting as a miniature 4" x 6". The miniature study can be
seen in this post.
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