My sculptural career has taken a turn strongly in the direction of oil-based clay – for bronze casting, or for resin. This is mainly because oil-based clay makes for sculpting successfully over a period of days or weeks, if necessary, just as easy as finishing a piece in one day. This is for the simple…
Recently there was a call for entries for the Fall National Art Competition at Impact Artists Gallery in Buffalo, NY. Unlike the previous show at this gallery, the Fall National was open to entries from across the United States. The Amur Tiger was juried into the show and is currently on display. Wildlife painter, Daniel…
Many have expressed an interest in my making prints available of some of my paintings. Finally, a series of my newer works is available to order online as fine art giclee prints or posters of various sizes at artistrising.com. Art prints are a wonderful way to decorate any home or office, and they make great…
Today, I thought I’d share another one of those cartoon landscape drawings I was talking about earlier. One of the fun things about drawing these was working with the variety of terrain and color represented in the compositions. The previous example was an African savanna pervaded by tones of brown and the occasional patch of…
Some while ago I published an article here referencing cartoon animals I was commissioned to draw for one of my commercial clients. Since the client’s market is the scrapbook industry, they also wanted double page landscape drawings in the same style as the animals. These were fun, and, as you can imagine, quite varied in…
I love fantasy art! Obviously I’m not alone. There is a huge market for this genre and it has many applications from paperback cover art to video games to the film industry and even comic books. People love to be absorbed in other worlds whether of their own making or those created by someone else….
Everybody who knows him knows it. At least that’s what I like to think. There may be detractors, sure, but the work of painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) is beyond what one would call “classic”. His virtuosity and creative picture-making prowess are an inspiration which, in my opinion, have rarely been equalled in art history….
Western art, to me, is an outlet for dynamic expression and energetic gestural painting. I never claimed to be a cowboy, but I’ve enjoyed creating fine art images from the spectacle of rodeo. It’s an excuse to depict powerful animals in violent motion and for studying the whirling forces of man and beast working in…
Thought I’d mention, since a while back there was a post about revamping the mold for the Liahona sculpture, that there has also been a new mold created for this figurative sculpture entitled Sorrow of Abish. Both sculptures are depictions of historical religious heroes from The Book of Mormon. This piece is nice with the solid…
Last night was the opening reception for Impact Artists Gallery Invitational Exhibition in Buffalo, NY. Featured was a very eclectic mix of styles and techniques, media and subject matter. There was a fairly strong emphasis on the human figure in many of the paintings featured, sometimes stylized and often more traditional in approach. It was…