I flip through a lot of art magazines. I look at magazines geared towards collectors and magazines geared towards other artists. I always find it fascinating to read about how a painter begins their work. There are the lucky few. The idea just seems to fall out of them. Sure–maybe they do some preparatory work that didn’t make [...]
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Trail Under the Pine Trees gouache on paper $50.00 Click here to check out this painting and more from Jeffrey Smith Art on Etsy. I got out the gouache paints the other day and did a little demo for my mother. She really wanted to learn to use the paints that my brothers and sister [...]
Birch Clump 8×6″ original oil on linen panel $150.00 I kept my landscape painting close to home tonight. I took my pochade box out to my own backyard. The neighbors have a great clump of birch trees. Perfect for one last plein air painting of the day, though I had to paint fast to capture [...]
