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  • The Making of a Painting
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  • Cockington Village
  • The Versatile Graphite …
  • Kew, Harrods and Madam Tussauds
  • London ~ the National Gallery
  • Collecting Resource Material
  • The Almighty Pencil…
  • Early Influence and Inspiration…
  • Château Versailles
  • Paris…City of Lights
Collecting Resource Material

You’ll never have too much!

Having good resource material is always the first step, for me, before I take the plunge into my next major project. I believe this is probably true for most artists that work in Realism.


I will peruse magazines of all descriptions, use the internet and or go to the local library to collect all I can on my subject matter.
For instance when I did this picture “portrait” of the Snowy Owl, I collected dozens of picture from different angles  to make sure that I thoroughly “knew” my subject matter.
The same can be said for the many “portraits” that I have done of hummingbirds.  It can’t be overemphasized how important it is to really “know” everything about the subject. Nothing dismays and annoys me more than when I see that someone has portrayed a male hummingbird with a female’s tail or vice versa!! For me “realistic” paintings are documented records, and it’s important to get the details “right”!
Another way that I collect resource material is documenting during travels. Taking a sketch book works well, if you’re out in nature and if you have the time to sit and sketch the details that you desire. This however, is not always possible, and many times not desirable, or extensively detailed enough for many projects. I must admit that for me it is not the ideal way to collect the pertinent and detailed information I need to complete my projects.   
When it comes to good material to work from, I find that a camera is really my best friend.   All you need is a half decent digital camera, and a few basic skills for using it. I always use high resolution so that if I choose to use the picture in the future, I can blow it up in size so the details are easily seen.
I have collected thousands of pictures in my travels that will give me enough resource material to probably last me to the end of my lifetime, and I am still constantly adding to my “stock”!

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My Favorite Quotes

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.~ Aaron Copland

A picture is a poem without words ~ Horace

A picture paints a thousand words ~ Anon

Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable ~ George Bernard Shaw

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures ~ Henry Ward Beecher

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls ~ Pablo Picasso

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision ~ James Whistler

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home ~ Twyla Tharp

The world is but a canvas to our imagination ~ Henry David Thoreau

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad ~ Salvador Dali

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do ~ Edgar Degas

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it ~ Paul Valery

A man creates with his brains and not with his hands ~ Michelangelo

Color is my day long obsession, joy and torment – Claude Monet









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