Paintings | Thomas Michael Nieman Art | Pennsylvania based Painter

This painting was done in studio largely from memory as part of my Year-End Creativity Challenge. Oh yes... Happy Tonalism Tuesday! Hope you enjoy this quick six minute video showing the whole process from start to finish in time lapse. The video also features original guitar instrumental piece called "Slow Learner" created by Tom Nieman Sr. (My Dad). That title is very appropriate as it took me nearly forty years to learn how to paint... Going forward whenever possible I in

Years passed by and I allowed resistance to win. I wanted to create art using oil paints. I wanted to learn and understand how to build paintings of the beautiful scenes I witnessed while driving, hiking, on runs or hanging out in my community. Yet I let all the excuses in my mind drown out my desire to do something I knew I would enjoy, that would be healthy for me and that I could eventually get pretty good at. During the onset of the COVID Pandemic I had a little accident,

There is something about painting subjects that are part of our everyday lives. Things we see nearly every day. Some are rather mundane and others lively and colorful. Subjects that are close to home allow for deep, well informed observation on a different level of understanding. Perhaps the thousands of times we drive by a scene, bend down to pet or feed our little pup or look up to the sky to breath in a sunset while sitting in the backyard connect us to a scene in ways wor

Hope you are well. As you might expect, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is well-equipped to deal with delivering world class treatment even during a pandemic. However, they are working to grow their #PPE stockpile to ensure that all patients and visitors have proper protection. It is projected to be a long-term need. In April I pledged to use 100% of all art sale proceeds through the end of 2020 to purchase face masks for Children's Hospital of Philadelphia through