Newsletter Archive

Storage Tip

May 15, 2026

Three Ducks and Twilight Reflections

May 13, 2026

Finished Elora Painting

May 5, 2026

Why Study the Masters?

April 24, 2026

Sorolla’s Garden

April 22, 2026

Plein Air Painting in the Maleny Hinterlands

April 17, 2026

Analogous Greens and Tiny Details

March 24, 2026

Fresh Off the Easel: New Zealand, Autumn Colors

March 2, 2026

Realism and How We Perceive the World

February 24, 2026

Difficulty Scale

February 23, 2026

A Tricky Plein Air Study

February 18, 2026

On Stop/Starting

January 30, 2026

Kobe

January 8, 2026

What to Do When You Blunder

December 30, 2025

Elora Painting – Part 4

December 26, 2025

When Inspiration Strikes

December 18, 2025

Sorolla’s Cow Painting

December 15, 2025

Mount Barney Hike

December 8, 2025

“I thought I was too old…”

November 29, 2025

Why You Must Date Your Work

November 17, 2025

Elora Painting: Part 3

November 14, 2025

Big, Challenging Projects

November 10, 2025

Just Start

November 1, 2025

Elora Painting: Part 2 – Refining the Background

October 30, 2025

Analyze, Not Copy

October 24, 2025

Art Prompts

October 16, 2025

Elora Painting: Part 1 – The Background

September 29, 2025

The Case for MORE Detail and Complexity

September 18, 2025

The Art of Observation

September 17, 2025

Different Techniques, Same Painting

September 2, 2025

No Clear Focal Point?

August 29, 2025

When the Reference Photo Leads You Astray

August 22, 2025

Which Variation to Paint?

August 13, 2025

Creating Subtle Links Between the Focal Point and the Surroundings

July 29, 2025

Goodbye to an Old Painting

July 25, 2025

Behind the Scenes of a New Tree Painting

July 22, 2025

An Interesting Observation About Color

July 14, 2025

Tick Off the Big, Easy Stuff First

June 29, 2025

New Painting, Subtle Subjects, and Fond Memories

June 25, 2025

Artists, Resilience, and the Pandemic

June 22, 2025

A Tricky Color Problem

June 14, 2025

When Things Start to Click

May 3, 2025

Learning From Failed Paintings

April 9, 2025

Adelsteen Normann’s Summer in Fjord

March 17, 2025

Seeing MORE Color on Overcast Days

March 12, 2025

What to Do When You Do Too Much?

February 28, 2025

Plein Air Painting and Fishing

February 14, 2025

What Are You Really Painting?

February 3, 2025

Gustav Klimt’s Beech Grove

January 31, 2025

Jeremy Mann’s Plein Air Books

January 29, 2025

Jeremy Mann’s Documentary

January 25, 2025

John Constable’s Sunset on the Seine

December 14, 2024

Arthur Melville’s Watercolors

November 20, 2024

Frank Johnston’s Sunset in the Bush

October 24, 2024

Lesson From the Easel

October 23, 2024

Thumbnail Test

October 17, 2024

Drawing Arabella

October 14, 2024

On Color Deficiencies

October 4, 2024

3 Tips for Painting With a Limited Palette

September 27, 2024

Bernard Dunstan and Diana Armfield

August 9, 2024

Jeremy Mann on Tools, Materials, and Rollers

June 11, 2024

More Complex Than Meets the Eye

May 28, 2024

Flashback: Devil’s Kitchen and My Early Impressionist Days

May 18, 2024

New Zealand’s Colors

April 19, 2024

Don’t Iron Out All Your Bad Habits, Kinks, and Quirks

March 14, 2024

When NOT to Follow My Lead

March 13, 2024

Simple Doesn’t Mean Easy

March 11, 2024

Thinking Fast

March 8, 2024

Deep Work

March 4, 2024

Finally Done: Elora With Christmas Lights

February 16, 2024

Nicolai Fechin’s Landscapes

February 9, 2024

Elena Salnikova’s Colorful Portraits

January 30, 2024

Dad’s Old Drawing

January 15, 2024

2023 Wrap Up and Getting the Most Out of This Year

January 5, 2024

Creating a Painting Is Only Part of the Story

October 11, 2023

Learning Control and Restraint

September 20, 2023

Anna by Swedish Painter Bruno Liljefors

September 8, 2023

La Chula by María Sorolla

August 9, 2023

Mediterranean Pergola With View of a Mountain Village by Konstantin Gorbatov

July 19, 2023

Frank Frazetta on Design, Creativity, and What It Means to Be an Artist

July 14, 2023

With Quiet Paintings, You Have Nothing to Hide Behind!

July 4, 2023

Renoir’s Mont Sainte-Victoire and a Lesson on Directional Brushwork

June 27, 2023

Paul Cézanne: Personal Favorites

May 29, 2023

Fresh off the Easel: Perth Gardens

May 12, 2023

Summer Meadow by Stanislav Zhukovsky

May 8, 2023

Painting Perth’s Rocky Coastline

April 14, 2023

Thomas Moran’s View of Venice

March 23, 2023

Why You Should Take Progress Shots of Your Work

March 8, 2023

My Problem-Solving Process

March 2, 2023

It’s Easier to Paint From Your Own Reference Photos

February 9, 2023

Steve Huston on Sketching

January 26, 2023

New Reference Photos: Perth Beaches and Gardens

January 21, 2023

Noticing Beauty in the World

January 6, 2023

A Small Study and a Lesson on Reflected Light

January 4, 2023

Hilda Rix Nicholas: Australian Artist With a Distinct, Illustrative Style

December 21, 2022

Bob Kuhn 1997 Interview

December 14, 2022

Visit to a Museum by Edgar Degas

October 28, 2022

New Reference Photos – Maleny, Queensland

October 22, 2022

On Changing Style

July 13, 2022

My Go-To Resources for Theory

July 1, 2022