Paintings
Painting Misty River - 4x8 Watercolor I haven’t posted here for 6 years. In that time, I put down my camera and picked a paint brush. In the short couple years I’ve peen painting I’ve discovered that painting is almost the opposite of photography and yet also the same. It’s the same in that your trying to represent reality in a stylistic manner that may or may not represent the “truth”, but it does it in a way that evokes a response from the audience and artist. They differ in that painting starts as a blank canvas that you fill with meaning but photography is a process of capturing the world on film by finding a way to eliminate all the distractions and unnecessary elements diminishing your vision. Painting is additive and photography is subtractive. At least to me. Hope Valley - 10x8 pastel on sand paper. Similar to photography in that my subject still manages to be smack dab in the center of the composition. I started out my painting adventure by picking up a Koi watercolor set.