http://www.chrismiles.net/index.htmlChris Miles Paintingsenchris@chrismiles.netCopyright 2008 Chris Miles2009-08-08T15:32:20-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:54:56 -0600chris@chrismiles.netNone2009-08-08T15:32:20-06:00http://www.chrismiles.net/files/4583d5c74cd601ae8e83942cd34fe109-6.html#unique-entry-id-6http://www.chrismiles.net/files/4583d5c74cd601ae8e83942cd34fe109-6.html#unique-entry-id-6My painting Muse was entered in the Springville Museum’s 2009 Spring Salon, Where it received an Award of Merit. The Museum then purchased it for their permanent collection. The museum displays work from their permanent collection about once each year.


The Springville Museum, Springville, UT


Muse, completed in January 2009]]>chris@chrismiles.netFrames2009-01-31T17:12:59-07:00http://www.chrismiles.net/files/9d601b9e6acde6219738a555cc389500-5.html#unique-entry-id-5http://www.chrismiles.net/files/9d601b9e6acde6219738a555cc389500-5.html#unique-entry-id-5This is my painting Emergence framed. It was framed by Holly Campbell who does beautiful gold leafing by hand. I plan to have her frame many of my upcoming paintings.

]]>chris@chrismiles.netFrames2009-01-25T14:55:30-07:00http://www.chrismiles.net/files/2fa071dbbe710cc916b8db4e61b16c1a-4.html#unique-entry-id-4http://www.chrismiles.net/files/2fa071dbbe710cc916b8db4e61b16c1a-4.html#unique-entry-id-4The owners of The New Guy kindly sent me a photo of the painting hanging in their home. If you own an original painting or print of mine and you like the way it looks in your house, e-mail me a photo if you’d like. I’d love to see it and I will post it here on my blog.

]]>chris@chrismiles.netHow I Work2009-01-25T14:12:44-07:00http://www.chrismiles.net/files/9bff577e0dac4b7027ea3bfcfaee3adf-3.html#unique-entry-id-3http://www.chrismiles.net/files/9bff577e0dac4b7027ea3bfcfaee3adf-3.html#unique-entry-id-3Looking over 2008 I see that I only did 5 paintings! Well, 2008 was my year of technological upgrading. I moved everything over from PC to a 24 inch iMac. Actually two 24 inch iMacs, I got one for home and one for the studio. I re-did my website as mentioned in the previous post. This was much more dificult and time consuming than I had anticipated since I wasn’t content with any pre-existing templates. Website software keeps getting more and more user friendly and if I had it to do over again I would have waited 5 years for easier software. Lastly I upgraded my Photoshop skills with the help of online learning resources. This has been very rewarding and useful. I use photoshop now for color studies such as this:




And drawings such as this:



Because I can make changes and adjustments to various parts of the color studies and drawings independently, it makes the process much faster for me. For example on a color study I can try out several different backgrounds to see which I like best. That would take me hours to do by hand but minutes on the computer. I bought a Wacom tablet which allows me to draw and “paint” directly on the monitor with a pen like tool instead of using a mouse.



So there it is, I am now officially high tech. But I still do my final paintings the old fashion way so I still spend 80% of my time in the studio getting dirty with paints.

]]>chris@chrismiles.netNews2008-08-12T10:25:48-06:00http://www.chrismiles.net/files/de0de03e5bd50fa1200dcbed0908da07-0.html#unique-entry-id-0http://www.chrismiles.net/files/de0de03e5bd50fa1200dcbed0908da07-0.html#unique-entry-id-0Hello,
I have just finished revamping my website and one new feature is this News link which is a blog page, which still needs some work as you can see. I’m not sure right now how often I will be updating it, right now but I hope to at least whenever i finish a new painting. On my old site I had a link, “about this painting”, on some of my painting pages, but from now on I will be putting that kind of commentary about my paintings here on this blog.
If you had seen my old site you may have noticed that now I have categorized my paintings into Magical Realism, Animalia (the walking talking type of animals), Landscape and All Paintings, which is a chronological listing of all my paintings. I think the paintings hold together a little better in these groups and I hope it makes it a little easier for you to find what you’re looking for. Some paintings are in two or three of the categories because they seemed to fit in more than one.
I finished my last painting March 13th 2008 and I haven’t painted since then! This is the longest I have gone without painting since 2000 . Since March I have been converting to Mac from PC, renewing my Photoshop skills, building this website, and we spent a month on a family trip to Europe. Starting Monday I ‘m back to painting and don’t plan to take a long break like this again for many years. While in Europe I was able to visit the National Gallery in London and the Louvre in Paris -very inspiring - Can’t wait to paint! -Chris]]>