Growing up in Boston in the 50’s, I remember two summertime treats I could sometimes convince my dad to give us at the end of a long hot da…

I like to experiment using different styles when creating images: oil paints, pastels, chalk, pencil sketch. But the most elusive style, th…

I envy anyone who can pick up a pencil and transform a blank piece of paper into into a beautiful sketch. I wanted to produce a series of im…

Within the Great Smokies National Park, the Cades Cove loop is an 11 mile one way drive about one hour west of Gatlinburg (where A Boy Named…

I didn’t get out in the field much to gather new source material last year, so I’m revisiting images I worked on earlier to see how they com…

In an earlier post I described how one of the final steps of my workflow is to add what I refer to as structure lines to the image. The bott…

Often while visiting desert locations I come across worn and weathered trees. Their tangled and distressed branches fascinate me. “Some day …

Let’s use this scene of a boat tied up at a pier in Morro Bay California to describe the steps that I take (called a workflow for true digit…