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The Tree At Mill Road, Part Two

by mike | Jan 20, 2020 | Modeling Techniques, The Art of The Craft, The Modeling Conversation | 3 comments

Bringing all my experiences to the craft of model building is what I enjoy most. The observation skills I’ve developed from painting are, perhaps more than any other, equally useful in modeling. My default mode is to dive in feet first and hope for the best. It’s...

Chris’s Curiosity

by mike | Jul 15, 2015 | Modeling Techniques, Pieces of The Puzzle, The Art of The Craft, The Missing Conversation | 4 comments

A teaser at the end of last week’s post suggesting more to come about changes to the layout peaked Chris Mears’s interest, so, let’s not torment him any longer. After much debate and procrastination, I decided to alter the yard area above the...

What’s Your Story About?

by mike | Jun 24, 2015 | Storytelling, The Art of The Craft, The Missing Conversation | 3 comments

Without the story behind it, a photo like this is nothing more than a tour-de-force of Photoshop techniques. One could imagine a number of scenarios about this image. It might bring up memories of tiptoeing to work through the early morning fog watching for traffic,...

Thoughts On The Landscape

by mike | May 20, 2015 | Pieces of The Puzzle, Storytelling, The Missing Conversation | 8 comments

Art can seem intimidating if you haven’t been exposed to it in a way you can relate to. You find paintings and works you like and some you don’t; while other stuff just makes you scratch your head as you try to figure out what it’s supposed to be....

On The Rail Trail

by mike | Dec 31, 2014 | Modeling Techniques, Pieces of The Puzzle, The Missing Conversation

  I spend a portion of my mornings walking for exercise on the Cardinal Greenway, a recreational trail built on the right-of-way of a former C&O branch that ran from Cincinnati, Ohio to Chicago, Illinois. The line runs north and south through Richmond and...
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