What can you do with a 500mm lens? I found this guy standing on the foot path around Purgatory Creek in Eden Prairie and just had to take his picture. I hope he’s as happy with it as I am.

New Website!

I finished another website this week, it’s called The Wonder of Oil Painting. Mark Saenger is an art teacher and artist who has studied with a bunch of other great painters including the venerable Bob Ross. Remember the friendly Mister Rogers-like painter on PBS with the afro who painted happy trees? Yep, him. Mark’s site has video samples of his new over 6 hour instructional DVD set that teaches oil painting using the wet-on-wet technique. Mark’s a real great guy, friendly and approachable, he can make even the most timid painter relaxed and comfortable with this challenging art form. Pop over to his site and check out the video cuts from his DVDs and you’ll see. While we were trying out different video sharing sites, within a couple of days his video had over 3000 views on Metacafe.com and we didn’t even promote it!

Mark found me through the work I did for Joe Paquet. I built a site for him a few years ago and have recently redesigned it to fit his evolving style and ever-expanding content. I know I sound like a designer selling his wares when I say this, but a site should be redesigned or at least reworked every two to three years to stay fresh and take advantage on new technologies and techniques. I specialize on creating sites that naturally rank high on Google - search for “Mitch USA” sometime and you’ll see what I mean.

Joe is becoming quite the celebrity in the art world; I’ve added a few articles to his website that appeared in the Villager and the California Art club.