My original art site, Journey In Oils, was created several years ago when I decided to spend more time learning what has proved to be the difficult process of oil painting. I originated the site about the same time I begin to drag my old wooden French easel outside to paint “en plein aire”, or in the open air.
One day while painting a fellow artist mentioned it would take 500 paintings to start to “smooth” our the rough spots in an artist’s work. “Journey in Oils” seems a natural label for this oil painting site.
Quiet a few years have passed and the 500 piece benchmark was reached. Along this “journey” I began to broaden the media I was working in to include pastels and charcoal. I also changed web formats to WordPress and moved to a new domain: www.SteveMIllerStudios.com. Unable to totally turn loose of my original domain, I will post a few blog entries here, but the bulk of my work will reside here:
www.SteveMillerStudios.com
I always try to use quality materials in the oils, pastels and charcoal work I create, which may be Studio work or Plein air work. Some of my favorite materials include:
- Winsor Newton Artists’ Oil Colour, on canvas and panel.
- Jack Richeson Gessoed Hard Board
- Richeson Oils
- Ampersand Pastelbord
- Sennelier Soft Pastels
- Schmincke Soft Pastels
- Rembrandt Soft Pastels
- Prismacolor NuPastels
- Cretacolor hard pastels
- General Charcoal Pencils
- Yupo Synthetic Paper
- Canson paper.
- Limited edition Giclee prints on canvas, reproduced by Coupralux Giclee Printmaking Studio of Dallas
