BFJ Gallery

Painting People	August 11, 2008
I'm trying my hand at painting people. This is a sketch to get started. The reference is of a member of the deviantArt community named Mikaela (http://tw1stedtruth-stock.deviantart.com/).

New Practice Painting Complete	July 31, 2008
I've been working on a Yarnell reproduction from a book of his I have. The progress has been posted on my Facebook account. Here is what I ended up with. I'm trying to figure out what to work on next. I'd like to do an original, but I'm not sure of what just yet.

Doodles	November 02, 2007
There hasn't been a lot of time for any serious art lately. I've finished up a painting which I will be adding to the site soon. You can also see a little Photoshop work I did with a Halloween picture of my son in the Digital gallery. A friend also wanted a henna tattoo as part of her costume for Halloween so I broke out the henna and did a couple of tattos that I'll be adding soon as well.

Columbus Artists' Guild Member Exhibition	September 19, 2007
I visited the show over the weekend to see the other works and to see who won awards. Unfortunately I was not among those with a ribon. It looked like people were the popular subject with the judge. My strategy of entering with a local interest subject didn't pay off this time. On to the next show...

Thank You Beta Testers

September 13, 2007

I've had a few kind volunteers testing for the past couple of days and everything is looking good. I'll be sending out the word later today that the site is open and ready to use via the Newsletter. Thank you to those who volunteered to test. Please continue to provide feedback so I can work out any bugs that pop up as the site goes live. I still have some other features in mind. I'll be adding those going forward. Please visit often to see the updates and to keep up to date on happenings with my studio.

Welcome beta testers

September 11, 2007

Thank you for taking the time to test my new site before it is announced to the public. I’m pretty happy with the colors and the layout, but I will take suggestions on those into consideration. The main thing I need is for you guys to try the site out as anonymous users, then create accounts and try out the features for registered users. Please let me know if you have any trouble creating accounts, logging in or out, or using any of the features of the site. I’d like to know if there are things that are broken or things that are just plain unintuitive or annoying. I know the ad banner is annoying, but it will go away when I go live with the site and actually pay for my hosting. Also, I don’t have custom error pages turned on yet. This is intentional so that you can see any actual errors that you get. Please copy and paste the contents into an email and send it my way if you run into any. When the site goes live I will be deleting all the user accounts, comments and blog entries so don’t create anything you plan to keep for posterity. Just wait until the site goes live. Again, Thank you for your help!

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