Mike Thompson:  

CLASS OF 1970
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Dekalb High SchoolClass of 1970
Dekalb, IL

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DEKALB, IL
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DEKALB, IL
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The other day I was searching for some long unused art supplies and decided not to excavate to the bottom of the storage closet to search for them. However, I came across an old photo that carbon dated to the past millenniu
Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation company that has produced "My Neighbor Totoro", "Kiki's Delivery Service", "Spirited Away", and more, still hand paints movie backgrounds using Nicker Poster Paints which are opaque pai
I'm a fan of the YouTube channel "Baumgartner Restoration" where Julien B repairs and restores fine art paintings. He also makes some of his own tools which is highly appealing to my engineer brain. One repair was a small (
Steve Mitchell of the "Mind of Watercolor" YouTube channel has a technique that he calls "Spontaneous Painting". He wets the paper, tilts it slightly, applies dashes of paint but not too much, and then works out a scene as
More abstraction using Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors and de Atramentis document ink. As the solar cycle ramped up there were reports of auroras all the way down to Arizona so I let my imagination run with that idea. "A
Bubbles, and seaweed, and, calligraphy nibs, oh my! 2023 began with a serious case of abstractionitis. I love the 1.1 and 1.5mm calligraphy nibs I put on my Lamy fountain pens. So much fun to draw and write with. "Aquariu
The water for Mattis Lake drains from the neighborhoods north and west of it in south Champaign so it tends to be too nutrient rich from yard fertilizers to fly fish along the shore in the drier late summer months. The park
Homer Lake has more than just the lake for visitors. There are a number of trails both in the woods and along side the woods next to some ragged meadows full of interesting shapes and colors. Last fall I chose (by luck) a g
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This pastel of the Fall River is painted from the same sandbar as the previous two paintings but looking upstream instead. It is a more interesting view with a lateral moraine in the far background and some nice reflections
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The smoke from the various fires in Colorado made this trip different from my other trips in the past because the views were always changing from day to day and throughout the day. The view looking with the sun at your back
I waited until Monday after moving into my cabin to head down to Lily Lake to do some sketching outside the controlled sections of the park. These "rocks" are each bigger than my house and very dramatic. I ended up abstract
I went back to Sprague Lake a couple of days later and it was smokey and overcast. Here is the view looking west toward Hallett Peak and Tyndale glacier. The mood was somber and dreary. While I was painting a female moose c
This is the view looking north across Sprague Lake looking toward the moraine across the road. Bierstadt Lake is on top of the moraine, probably a quarter mile or so to the left and Hollowell Park is on the other side of th
Sometimes you don't have to look very far to find an interesting scene to paint. This summer the repairs are underway at Alluvial Fan on the pathways and bridge to the falls that were damaged in the floods a few years ago.
The heavy smoke in the park at times created unreal scenes. One evening in camp the view toward Long's Peak looked like cardboard cutouts in a child's play. This effect was recreated again a few days later when I stopped at
This is the last painting I made on my RMNP trip this year. The section of Highway 36 in the park between Bear Lake Road and the junction with Highway 34 was closed due to a fuel spill and not expected to open before I left
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