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Here's a new painting I started today. The scene is a field off Marton Road in Pittsfield Township, MI. I decided that I would do a...

A truly rewarding aspect of landscape painting is to enjoy the finer details added to the canvas, once the "basic" painting is completed....

A tortillion (pointed paper stick) and a piece of willow charcoal can be a pastel painter’s best friends when it comes to refining edges....

Often when viewing a landscape painting in progress, we feel that there is "something wrong" but don't quite know what that something is!...

Here's the completed version of "Lillie Park Vista,' started in the "Landscape in Pastels" class this January at the Michigan Art Center.

On our autumn tree I determined that the very bright yellow leaves catching the late day sun were a bit too bold. So my plan was to...