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Shot of a stairway, up to another path. Please, if you use my photos...all I ask is that you credit me for the image. - Non-Commercial License - No Attribution Required

I have a few recent paintings to share. Here's one of them, Impressions of Noosa. I had mixed feelings about the outcome of this, but it's come to grow on me. Something different at the very least. I also think it's worth sharing paintings that didn't go exactly as planned as this gives you a

The Joseph Bellows Gallery shares the late Wayne Sorce's "Urban Color" series of NYC in the late '70s and early '80s.

Check out how simple seascapes can be if you follow this tutorial step by step. Learn how to paint a seascape starting with just a reference photo.

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At least half of my painting effort goes into shooting good reference photos. I “create” my composition in the viewfinder and shoot with as wide dynamic range as possible. Lately I have been using a drone to get shots that would have been impossible before. In order to get the widest dynamic range, I shoot bracketed photos at different f-stops then process them on my computer with Photomatix. I shoot thousands of photos, often visiting the same places at different times of day to find…

Reference photos of actual landscapes make it much easier for artists to paint their own landscapes on canvas.

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