Process images: this category includes all posts that show process images, either in photos and in video.

160 years in the making

This portrait bag only took a few months to create.  It’s what it represents that’s been 160 years in the making…

Putting your best FACE forward

Certain expressions are better for portraits than others.  In choosing a source photo from which to work, it’s crucial to think of the subject’s character and what you want to say about her-him, but it’s equally important to pick an expression that will work well in paint.

A funny kind of family

I’m not the kind of artist who can work on just one painting at a time: my studio has to be full of half-made faces or I can’t paint. 

Before and AFTER: Heart Transplant

The story of a heart transplant surgery told in two paintings.

I ♥ Kevin Cook!

Today was part two of the film filming for OPB’s Oregon Art Beat.  KC and the crew documented my interview with the extraordinary Kevin Cook.

Gwenn Seemel, sculptor.

Feeling the draw of the third dimension. 

You won’t have CHINA to kick around anymore.

When a President is like a graffiti-ing punk (and like a new world power).

You ain’t nothing but an American citizen.

Apple Pie has been a special pleasure to work on because it has allowed me to reconnect with old friends, including Jimmy, the subject of this portrait.

The line between offending people and starting a conversation

If a work is just plain offensive, then there’s no art to it; if it’s completely innocuous, it might as well be a wall paper pattern.

Gwenn Seemel, LANDSCAPE painter.

Because I would hate to seem predictable.

Waving my flag

The flag of the United States isn’t just some stale old symbol thrown together years ago as a standard to carry into battle: it’s a reflection of how this country has grown. 

My disposable thumb

The story of how my right thumb came to be non-compulsory to my painting process doesn’t actually start on my kitchen floor as I try to stop myself from fainting after slicing my digit to the bone on a can top.

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