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Featured in Western Art & Architecture June-July, 2015 issue is a story by Shari Morrison, photography by David Cobb, of a home in the High Plains of Texas. It features my 46 x 40” oil painting Cliff Colors installed in a stunning setting, as you can see on page 122.

Here is my process of creating that studio painting. With the smaller version beside the larger canvas, I sectioned off the larger one into thirds, marking the center so as not to hit it with anything major. I began to draw with my brush, the way I would with watercolor, except I do not have to be as precise with the wash drawing as I would need to be with that medium. Then follows a mass blocking in of the areas. As I get closer to the desired finish I am looking to refine some areas, leaving other parts as they are.