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Some people create paintings starting with a careful construct made of color studies, reference material, and multiple sketches. This way, when things get started on the canvas, there aren’t too many surprises and they have a pretty good idea what the final image will be. I don’t do any of that. I imagine that would …

This is a painting that I painted at the same time as the Bismarck Landmarks I painting, and is located in the same place. It is 4′ X 2′, and painted with acrylic paint on stretched canvas. If you’d seen me painting this, you’d have seen about four different paintings emerge (along with a few …

I was given the opportunity to display some work in the newly opened Toasted Frog in downtown Bismarck. I won’t bore you with the details of my inner ecstatic reaction because they are seriously embarrassing. Anyway. I wanted to paint something that incorporated what I have found to be, on my daily six-block walk to and …

On Friday, I will display, for the first time, five new canvases that I have painted. These will be hanging in the place I work for an art and dessert event we are having that evening, and will remain up for a while afterwards. I would call them paintings, but because I have had typically …

This is what happens when a cat attempts to fly an airplane, which is always a mistake. They are too short to adequately maintain visual contact with the exterior as well as the interior of the plane, and are prone to curling up and falling asleep. The lack of opposable thumbs does not help. Whatever …