Paintings | Thomas Michael Nieman Art | Pennsylvania based Painter

Happy Monday! I hope this email finds you well. Just in case you missed it, I posted two new painting videos from this past weekend. One in studio from memory and another a Plein Air session where I completed four small pieces. I am providing links to both videos below. Please check out the free giveaway I am offering for you! This video shows complete process for four plein air oil paintings from beginning to end. Completed on a 8" x 10" canvass boards. FREE GIVEAWAY = Like

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