08/29/2026
After my trip to Jackson Hole and Grand Teton I was very inspired to work on wildlife paintings. A lot of people ask me why I don’t paint realism on all my art. I was trained in two colleges for almost 6 years on drawing and painting. When I got out of art school that was all I was doing - realism. Just didn’t sell much but did lots of prints. Lots of galleries turned me away in Arizona.
Now I hate the smell of oil paints now too. So I utilized my love for watercolors and transferred that into Acrylics. They are very close together as a medium. I feel like combing the looseness of Impressionism and mixing it with realism I can achieve an artistic style of my own.
But that’s not enough…you have to come up with subject matter, themes, and series of paintings that move people and invoke feelings that they can compare to their own lives. Then, hopefully they will love it enough to buy it from you. 😎
I started this Rocky Mountain Elk painting. It’s a work in progress and I only have 8 hours into it so far. It looks very realistic now but I will try and finish it with some more noticeable looser brush strokes. Still slinging paint!
