“Nu’thin Bruin” Grizzly Cub started

Over the weekend I started a new painting for Fidel & Michelle Singh, it is the second painting to my Grizzly Cub set. The second painting is the accompanying piece to “Mischief’s Bruin” and is the same 12 x 12 size. I started with playing a little with the composition. Added a tree limb in at the bottom right to repeat the shape of the cub and give the piece a little unity and break up the background space a bit. I am going with the same gradated background as “Mischief’s Bruin” so the two paintings will have some unity or a common thread. I have posted the original photo, the photoshop composition study and the first two snap shots of the painting in progress. I will post progression shots at the end of the week. Happy painting everyone!

Grizzly Cub Stage 1

Original Photo of Grizzly Cub

PTP – Derek C Wicks Enewsletter

2012 Waterfowl Stamp Ducks Unlimited has released their 2012 National Art Portfolio Artists list and I am pleased to announce that I am the 2012 Waterfowl Stamp artist. The piece selected is “Shallow Surfers” -Lesser Scaup. Some of you my recognize this image from the 2009 Wildlife Habitat Canada competition were it won second place, the original was named “Riding The Wave” back then. Ducks Unlimited asked me if they could change the name of the image as the 2011 Waterfowl Stamp was also named Riding The Wave and they did not want to get the two confused. You can view the image on my  wildlife art website.   2 New Art Instruction DVDs   I have finally finished the editing on the new rocks textures dvd and both new art techniques videos are now available. The long awaited and much requested Painting Water Textures is now available and is over 105 minutes long! They say a dvd should not be longer then 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes long, but I just could not get all the info on the volume I wanted to in under an hour. This dvd covers everything you need to know to paint reflective, translucent, cascading water and sea foam. Full details and chapter info is available on the website page Painting Water Textures. The second dvd is Creating Rock Textures and is over 75 minutes long. This dvd covers how to create texture in rock surfaces, painting smooth rock and how to paint clusters of rock. Again, full details are available on-line at the Creating Rock Textures page. As always The DVD’s will be at the lower price until November 30, 2011 for the VIP list. Happy Holiday’s Everyone!

Art Instruction Originals Available The two original pieces of art used to make the new Power To Paint art instruction video’s are now available. These two originals come framed and include all taxes and shipping to the purchaser. Click on the image above or below  to view the full details on the piece of art. These originals would be the ideal reference piece to accompany the art instruction dvd or a fantastic Christmas gift for someone who owns the PTP art instruction video. A payment plan can be arranged for anyone who is interested.

Painting Water & Rock Instuctional DVD’s released

PTP – Painting Water & Painting Rock now released!   Power To Paint Art Instruction Vol. 9 & Vol.10 now available     Hello painters, I am happy to announce that two new Power To Paint Art Instruction DVD’s are now available! The long awaited Painting Water Textures and Creating Rock Textures are both full length Art Technique videos that instruct in detail how to create convincing, realistic water & rock textures. Both DVD’s are information packed with over one hour  of in the studio step by step instruction, Painting Water Textures being over 106 minutes! Click the images to the right to visit the information page and get full chapter by chapter details on these two new exciting videos.   Enjoy the new videos everybody and Happy Painting!