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Crashing Waves (detail)

Monet at the Denver Art Museum

December 15, 2019December 10, 2019

In early December, on the day that marked the 40th anniversary of the day I began working at Hewlett-Packard, we were fortunate enough to take in the Monet exhibit at the Denver Art … Read more

Categories Oil Painting, Photography, Travel Tags art, Claude Monet, Denver Art Museum, painting
Inktober Glass Pen and Ink

Drawings from My First Inktober

November 2, 2019November 1, 2019

I just finished participating in a month long drawing activity known as Inktober . I had heard vague references to it, but all I knew before I started was that the goal was … Read more

Categories Art Tags art, drawing, Inktober
Wilmer Plaque: Close-up

Brass Rubbings, England, circa 1980s

August 2, 2019July 9, 2019

My friend Jeffrey sent me a package of some art supplies used by his late mother, and included some brass rubbings she made while visiting some churches and cathedrals in England in the … Read more

Categories History Tags art, brass rubbings, England, Thomas Wilmer
Covfefe Cup Red & Blue

Linocut Covfefe Cup

June 13, 2017

Encouraged by yesterday’s results, I wanted to try creating another linocut, but wanted something easy to cut and more formal than anything I could draw by hand. This lead me to search for … Read more

Categories Linocut Tags art, blockprint, coffee cup, covfefe cup, linocut, printing
A Painterly Kind of Day

A Painterly Kind of Day

March 5, 2017

The winds were howling and gusting all day, so I spent the afternoon dabbling with my watercolors. I painted 4 copies of an exercise designed to build skills with layered washes. Part of … Read more

Categories Hobbies, Watercolors Tags art, color chart, painting, watercolor painting
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