About

This is a blog website about oil painting, watercolor, and photography.

I have been painting with oils for over nine years now, and I have painted with watercolors for six years as well. I created this website to share my knowledge of things I have learned over the years.

I just started getting into photography. I am a quick learner, so I want to detail things I’ve learned about that too.

I have done my best to give my personal opinions on materials and techniques about these mediums.

I like a variety of subjects in my artwork. I’ve painted landscapes, flowers, still life, seascapes, buildings, and portraits.

I am still a student, so some of the pictures in my gallery are studies of other artist’s work. They are for my learning, but each of them are slightly different from my reference. I don’t intend to distribute or sell these.

This website was originally built with 11ty, and then Metalsmith, but I finally settled on Jekyll.

Jekyll is a static site generator built on the ruby programming language. Fortunately, you don’t need to know how to program ruby. I chose it because it has been around for quite awhile, and there is a large community of developers who use it. There are themes you can use to style your Jekyll site, but I decided to create my own styling.

This website is stored in a github repository, and it is hosted by Cloudflare. All I had to do was create an account and buy a domain name.