Recent content by JStarr

Lovely work- I envy your touch with a brush (or twig, even!) And Many Happy Returns of the Day- hope your next year is great!

Lookee you! This is GREAT- really caught the character of the model/name!

Up north- how nice! I spent a few four years in Lawton- about an hour north of Witchita Falls. It was a terrific spot with great fishing (even trout on Ft Sill, stocked every fall/winter) and an amazing swimming hole at Medicine Park. The wind was a bit much, though. ;)

So waaaay back about 35 or so years ago, my youngest brother made me an oak chest for art supplies; he did not use nails or screws or any hardware except the drawer pulls and the piano hinge on top- it was a lovely, well-used piece of furniture. But--- It didn't like traveling all over the...

Thank you MH- I appreciate your kind words. I have had this past week off from holiday company who got to our house on the 9th of December, and finally left this past Monday Jan 22nd- I've got the place clean again and have been reveling in not having a guest- it was far too long. Something...

Lovely spotlight on the tree and leaves. Good work. You do you, Boo.

Thanks, Murray. A bit stilted yet, but coming along. This'll be one I keep trying, I think.

Some nice textures going there. Do you use the pastels 'straight', or dip them into an oil-based medium or melt them? A friend could get some terrific oil pastel impasto effects using mediums/heat.

Hi, Heather- nice to have you here. Looking forward to seeing your work. Where in Oklahoma are you?

Complete with the swirls to emulate the physical sensation of a good kiss

Oh now THIS is a great use of limited palette!

Nice work!

Thank you, Kay, and thank you, Wayne

One of the colour ideas I teach is that warm/cool tones are not so much about sides of the wheel or yellows-reds are warm/blues and greens cool, as that the higher the chroma- the purity- of a hue, the warmer it is and so it will come forward, and the more the hue is greyed, will cool it, and it...

Thanks Ayin, Sno, Jo, and Donna. The tree's still a bit more tortured than I care for, but I think that's because it was.... ;)