Categories
all paintings landscapes

Trail Painting Progress Gif

Just finished this big trail painting today.

I took several pictures, so I could make this little animated gif and look back at the work in progress.

Trail Dreams, 60 x 40, acrylic on canvas, © Steve Miller 2017

This painting was inspired by mountain biking in SE Michigan, but is not an actual place. It’s just a daydream built on good memories of getting out there and contending with the trail. Feeling the exhilaration of moving through the trees, and finding all these great things to look at, if only for a moment.

Categories
landscapes representational

Painting The Trails

Small landscape painting of a wooded trail. 8 x 8, acrylic on canvas, 11/28/17 Just completed these two imaginary trail paintings, part of a new series inspired by mountain biking in Michigan. Painting imaginary trails is just as fun as riding real ones. Small landscape painting of a dirt trail. 8 x 8, acrylic on canvas, 11/28/17
Categories
portrait representational

Portraits of my girls

Painted these portraits of my little ladies the other day. Magenta highlights and smiles.

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

Categories
all paintings figure new paintings realism

Finishing a Portrait of Tiff

Working on this little portrait of my awesomely awesome wife, Tiffany. I’m just about done with it, I’ll get a solid photo soon, but first I want to paint portraits of my beautiful girls too.

Categories
Art News Event landscapes new paintings

Grosse Pointe Peepers!

THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON!

Come to the Grosse Pointe War Memorial. The 79th GPAA Members Show. 2-4pm.

GPAA SHOW POSTCARD

I’m lucky to have two pieces in this show. Thank you GPAA.

An acrylic landscape painting by Steve Miller of a floating island with bigtop stripes, a catfish dragon swimming, clouds floating, a bird peeking, and a volcano popping.
Unexpected Expedition, 60 x 40, acrylic on canvas, © Steve Miller 2017

Acrylic landscape painting by Steve Miller of a bluff overlooking a beach, a plateau, a ball, and a small building on a hill.
Just Bluffing, 36″x24″, acrylic on canvas, © Steve Miller 2017

Unexpected Expedition hanging in the 79th GPAA members show at the War Memorial in Grosse Pointe.

Categories
abstract all paintings expressionistic landscapes

Unexpected Expedition

60″ x 40″, acrylic on canvas, 2/10/2017

Here’s my latest mental landscape.

Categories
Art News

Ceci n’est pas un president

Parody of Rene Margritte’s painting, “Ceci est une pipe,” or Treachery of Images.

My Signal Return’s “Power of the Press,” poster competition entry.

Categories
all paintings expressionistic landscapes new paintings

Just Bluffing

An acrylic landscape painting with the view of an imaginary beach… have a ball at the beach!

Just Bluffing, 36″ x 24″, acrylic on canvas, 1/11/17

This painting was a valley before it was a beach. Fabricating Daydreams!

landscape painting in progress
Work in progress

landscape painting in progress
Work in progress

Categories
Art News Event

Our Rivers, Our Lakes

 

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

our-rivers-our-lakes-to-share

Categories
Art News

My Corner Shelf Instructable

Cover photo of my Instructable

Categories
Art News Event

2nd Annual ART BATTLE for KIDS!

LAST YEAR WE RAISED CLOSE TO $800 for Royal Oak Animal Shelter and our goal this year will be to break $1000

Brody, Jude, Miles, Lily, Tarian & Prenity invite you to participate in the 2nd Annual ART BATTLE for KIDS!

Download the ART ENTRY FORM and start making your art now! Each ART ENTRY requires it’s own ART ENTRY FORM and the fee of $10/entry.

We will have food, drinks and prizes for this judged ART BATTLE!!! Also a very special guest DJ!

Spread the word and get started on your ART ENTRY now!

there will be a drop off on Thursday 5/23 4pm – 8pm

Categories
abstract all paintings Art News graphic

Woodgrain and Gradients

Improv Song, diptych, 48″ x 23.875″ x .5″, acrylic on plywood, completed February, 2016

© Steve Miller 2016

My new painting on plywood is a diptych which builds off of the woodgrain landscape series. The woodgrain still serves as compositional parameters. However, my intent is to work more graphically pushing the work further away from representation. Instead of using earth tones to describe a landscape, I am referring back to my bolder color palette; once again playing with bright gradients, which are counter directional. Sanding off layers of color and reapplying them creates depth in a new way for me. The natural wood tones become embroidered between broken color. The intent is to create a sense of rhythm and playfulness for the viewer. For me, working within self-imposed rules, trusting in an organic genesis, and sometimes ignoring traditional modes of representing forms in space, I hope to discover something new about painting.