Painting for Life was partially named as a dedication to Benjamin’s renewed life due to his liver transplant, twenty years ago this year. In order to celebrate this event, we will be participating in the Liver Life Walk event, in City Park, Denver, Colorado.

There are three ways to join us in celebration:

  Come and hang out at our tent.

   Sign up to either walk or run the 5K event.

   Sponsor one of our team members.

For those who wish to do either 2 or 3, they can find more information about it by going online to: http://go.liverfoundation.org/goto/paintingforlife. But hurry! The event is this Thursday!

To learn more about my transplant story, watch this quick video!

And as a part of our special celebration, on June 12, 2012, every item in our store will be 20% off.
Discount code: transplant.

• Way cool blank Rocky Mountain Landscape notecards
• Nine cards per box (3 each of three designs)
• Special, limited time, exclusive discount of $10 per box!
• Portion of the proceeds go to the Steele Foundation
• Enter Steele-deal at check out.

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As part of a larger, multi-media presentation, I created this painting to represent the God’s love to the world.

If you wish to order this as a card for somebody, click here.

If you wish to order the entire box set, click here.

Email me if you wish to purchase the painting.

Palm Sunday, This Sunday!

Come and join us this Sunday at Faith Bible Chapel Carr Street. Benjamin and Cherish will visually participate in a live painting demonstration as part of the worship and sermon.
When: Sunday, April 1, 9am and 10:45am.
Where: Faith Bible Chapel, Carr Street, 4890 Carr Street, Arvada, Colorado 80002

As a St. Patrick’s day gift to you, we have created a free fun, step-by-step tutorial on how to draw a Leprechaun. Great for school aged children. The instructions start with “Draw two fish bowl shapes.”

That’s all I’m going to say for now. To find out more and to get started with your St. Patty’s Leprechaun drawing, download the  the 3 page PDF worksheet.

Happy drawing!

These are two of the more successful exercises that came from that class. The first is of the little girl. In this exercise, I limited both their brush size and their color pallette. I asked them to bring back photos of portraits from which to paint, and we had to create our paintings using only five colors: Cadmium Red Medium, Ultramarine Blue, Yellow Ocher, Burnt Umber, and White. No detail brushes were allowed. I wanted them to break free from focusing on the detail that is inherent with portraits, and to instead look for the larger shape areas, scumbling them in with a wide, flat brush.

The second painting, of the peppers, was a still life project–real peppers were used for this painting. All colors and brushes were allowed in this particular project.

The challenge with this and all paintings worked on in this class is the time frame. It’s only an hour and a half class. For the girl painting, I did take it home to work on it a little bit, but I still limited my total time painting to 3 hours. The peppers, being a still life, had to be finished in the hour and a half.

If you have not received the above art as a personalized calendar card from Benjamin and Cherish
and would like one, please make sure you provide us with a mailing address address.

While portraits are generally thought of as great and unique gifts for weddings, this last example demonstrates that they can be given for just about any occasion. Pricing ranges, depending on medium, size and complexity. Our basic pricing structure can be found here, but feel free to contact us with your proposed budget and we can craft a unique portrait just for you.

The illustrations in this post are the results of the work we did for her in trying to recreate a vintage Christmas. This illustrations were a blast to work on. Thank you, Brenda, for letting us be a part of your holiday celebration.