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There's a first time for everything...
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...

tmichaelniemanart
Nov 17, 20202 min read


Close to Home
There is something about painting subjects that are part of our everyday lives. Things we see nearly every day. Some are rather mundane...

tmichaelniemanart
Nov 2, 20201 min read


The Eyes of a Beginner
Each artist has their own unique gifts they can bring to their practice. Perhaps, if nothing else, it is the unique perspective of each...

tmichaelniemanart
May 28, 20202 min read


The absence of expectation is the beginning of discovery
So much of what we do in a peaceful civil society hinges upon expectations. Meanwhile the absence of expectation is the beginning of...

tmichaelniemanart
May 11, 20202 min read


Missing baseball
Great friends of ours asked me to paint something related to baseball. While I am operating outside of my comfort zone when figure...

tmichaelniemanart
May 4, 20201 min read


A Little Bit of Progress is Better Than No Progress
Despite the COVID-19 Pandemic there is enough to do as a full time parent, full-time salesperson and a part-time artist that I need to...

tmichaelniemanart
Apr 28, 20202 min read
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We are living through very strange times as we navigate the COVID-19 Pandemic induced social distancing orders we currently have in...

tmichaelniemanart
Apr 15, 20203 min read