DAILY PAINTINGS

French Bread • Carb Free

  Watch the Video • Easy • Julia Child Method How can French Bread be Carb Free? Simple … Don’t Eat It … Paint It !!! This is how I did it. Forget food. Paint. Paint all Day, and voila. You have French Bread and no calories. I don’t think of food while I’m painting. [...]

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Sunflower - Follow the Painting Process

THE REFERENCE     Sunflower V Square © Jacobson   THE BACKGROUND PAINTING       Are you wondering how I do it? What’s the process that I use to get from  A to  Z?    THE PROCESS in Steps 1 thru 7 Paint Sunflower into the Background image Add more petals and lines Add [...]

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Pick your favorite and vote

   THE PROJECT I need to add two pieces to the above Oriental Poppy Long The pieces need to measure 16″x20″ each THE DILEMA Should the pieces be more abstract and use shapes related to the flower? Should the pieces be a matching flower? YOUR VOTE PLEASE Choose #1 or #2 and just type that into [...]

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Sunflower Meets Background

ABSTRACT SUNFLOWER STEP 1 – Sunflower V Square Painted in the photo realistic using airbrush STEP 2 – Yellow Background STEP 3 – Painting a selected area from SunflowerV into the Yellow Background  STEP 4 – After completion I crop the new painting. I love to crop and find a exciting compositions.   Note the painting was completed  in the horizontal [...]

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Artwork - Portrait Series Update

    PAINTING THE BACKGROUND For this series, I am going to do a group of background paintings. Later I will paint an image into those ground paintings as I did in Hydrangea II Splatter. Today I have :  Limited the color range to yellow, gold, orange and white Used paints from across the mediums (oils, pastel and [...]

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What Happened in the Studio Today?

  ABSTRACT PAINTING I said I would work in several styles. Here’s what I consider an abstract style. The image is part of the abstract ground. You may recognize the background from my self portrait. MY PROCESS… Medium:  Corel Painter 11 – digital painting Used the original abstract painting for the background layer Used the [...]

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New Painting Series

I took a break from the blog for about a week. I’m back, I’m rested and I’m painting. PORTRAIT SERIES After exploring the Still Life in depth, I have begun to miss my roots. This is a the first piece of the new series. The Plan To explore upclose and personal portraits of friends, family and [...]

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How I Paint without making a mess

Painting Tutorial using Corel Painter 11   I love to Paint. I always say, “I love the smell of turpentine,” and I really do. But I also love that I have no mess, no cleanup, no allergy problems, no rags, no paper towels, etc. It’s now a “green thing” to keep it clean and healthy for the [...]

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REVISITS

    THE PAINTINGS TODAY  5 Years Later     This week I revisited two pieces that I did 5 years ago. They were among my post popular and favorites. Of course, favorites change as I do more artwork. I thought it would be fun to see how I would approach the same compositions today. My medium is acrylic. I’ve done these [...]

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Pear Paintings

Today is simple, and brief. I do paintings daily and I’ll post a few every week. This is the first time I’m posting daily artwork, so I’m including a couple from past weeks. Now, that’s honest. How would you know if I did them yesterday, today or one year ago. But…I like to keep it [...]

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Portrait Painting Demo

     Using Photos for Reference TAKE A SEAT AND ENJOY  Today I am working in my ultimate digital art studio.  This is an oil painting demo using the Wacom® Cintique touch/pressure sensitive monitor and Corel® Painter 11. I will be demonstrating a portrait using photos supplied by the client.   I start each portrait in a [...]

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Painting Demo - The Rose

  White Rose with Bud ©2009 Jacobson.   WHITE ROSE WITH BUD TAKE A SEAT AND ENJOY  Today I am working in my ultimate digital art studio.  This is an oil painting demo using the Wacom® Cintique touch/pressure sensitive monitor and Corel® Painter 11. Painter 11 digital painting software is the most advanced painting and natural [...]

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