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“Self and Other” Oil Painting – Nonverbal Communication
“Self and Other” When we’re first born, communication is largely non-verbal. Non-verbal communication continues through our entire lives, but is especially prevalent in our first year of life. This oil...
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Family Portrait Painting – Surprise Christmas Gift!
Measurements and drawing – 2 key steps in my process for creating a great-looking portrait painting! This particular portrait painting is of a family of 4 and will be a Christmas surprise for 3 of the...
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Family Portrait Painting Progression
After much work sketching, measuring and aligning, I’ve got three of four family members onto the canvas and ready to paint! This portrait painting is unique in that because it’s a surprise, we had to...
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A Confession of Love and Proposal for Marriage through Fine Art
Will you marry me? That is the question that will be proposed when this painting is shown (along with a ring) to the surprise recipient – my client’s girlfriend and soon-to-be fiancee. The idea was...
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Family Portrait Painting Progress
First came the drawing, and now the paint! Each day brings more progress on this portrait painting, which is great because I’m coming up on the Christmas deadline! Filed under: Art, custom art, family,...
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Family Portrait Painting Completed!
The portrait painting is finished! The creation of this painting was a process of gathering photos of the subjects, aligning them together into a scene to appear as if they had posed together,...
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“Goodbye” Painting
I’m not sure if I ever wrote a post about this painting, but this is a painting I did in 2012 of my grandmother and I (we call her Mamaw). She was having lots of health issues and was really … Continue...
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Lito Marcos – Portrait Art Drawing
Since my wife and I went to Argentina in August with my mother-in-law, I wanted to give my mother-in-law a gift that would be relevant to that visit. So I drew a portrait of her father Marcos, who was...
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Parenting – Fear of Failure
As my wife and I are becoming closer to becoming parents each day, I’ve been reading lots of material on pregnancy, birthing, and parenting. One of the books I’ve found particularly helpful is The...
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Making the Ordinary Come Alive
From the Parents Tao Te Ching – Ancient Advice for Modern Parents, interpreted by William Martin: Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable but it is...
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Can You Make Room?
From The Parents Tao Te Ching – Ancient Advice for Modern Parents: If you fill every waking moment of your children’s lives they will have no room to be themselves. If you push them constantly they...
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Children Naturally Love Life
From The Parents Tao Te Ching – Ancient Advice for Modern Parents, interpreted by William Martin. “Your children naturally love life. Their love of life is spontaneous and unconscious. It delights in...
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Birth of our Son – Baby Painting in Progress of my Nephew
As I wrote on Loudoun Baby Artist yesterday, this past month has been super busy for my wife and I, what with midwife appointments and preparing for the birth of our son, who was born over a week ago...
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Completed Baby Oil Portrait Painting of my Nephew
Just yesterday I put the finishing touches in this oil portrait painting of my nephew. I like this photo because of how he’s looking up at the camera, eyes open with wonder! To learn more about...
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Can You Make Room?
From The Parents Tao Te Ching – Ancient Advice for Modern Parents: If you fill every waking moment of your children’s lives they will have no room to be themselves. If you push them constantly they...
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Portrait Painting of my Son at the Beach
A few weeks ago my wife, son and I went to Florida for a few days, and it was the first time our son saw the ocean! He was actually asleep when pulled in to the parking lot, so we carried him out in...
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Reblog – Cloth Diapering from Dad’s Point of View
Recently, I’ve written a couple of guest blog posts on my wife’s business’ website – WholeMe! Programs. Though my blog is usually about art, I thought I’d share my post on cloth diapers, for any other...
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