Paintings | Thomas Michael Nieman Art | Pennsylvania based Painter

Nearly fifteen years ago I started thinking about organizing a long-term series of paintings that focus on uplifting stories from the the...

This recent painting of the Deer Head Inn is the third painting I've completed of this historic building. “May Flowers at The Deer Head...

The single most important thing I have learned (and relearned over and over...) through time is the importance of letting go. I was...

We all have one thing in common, we all have at least one foot in the wilderness. Or perhaps we should. Whether lost like Jonah or on...

Watercolor as an amazingly versatile medium and simultaneously it is the one medium I use regularly that I have the most to learn about....

Numinous is from the Latin word numen, meaning "nod of the head" or "divine will" (the latter sense suggesting a figurative nod, of...

Pastel is one of three main mediums I prefer to create my paintings in. I am very open to all mediums and hope to try them all! Pastel...

Check out this Painted Lady - Made from memory- Facebook Memories that is… This is exhibit "a" for how we can put Creative Composting on...

Some ideas take longer than others... "Art takes time— Monet grew his gardens before he painted them." --Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild...

Nearly every Wednesday night at 9pm EST we will walkthrough various things going on in the studio. These sessions will include things...

We had a long roadtrip to a soccer tournament in Virginia this weekend for our daughter, Amelia. On Saturday and Sunday our son Aiden...

The very first paintings I recall inspiring me to learn to paint at a young age were Claude Monet's Water Lilies and some of his many...

Sometimes I wonder how things would be if I stayed the course, completed my academic art-related studies and a career of as full-time...

Recently I invested in an online portrait workshop offered by Alain Picard. It was a fantastic experience. The focus of the workshop was...

Make the most of what’s around -- make the most of the time you have to create. As an introvert whose professional life has often left me...

"Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can...

Sounds oxymoronic doesn't it? Truthfully, if I have any hope of sustaining my painting practice over the long term I need a process for...

Sometime ago, I remember listening to an interview with Ed O'Neill (the actor who played Al Bundy on Married with Children and Jay...

Creating art requires a little bit of faith. Optimism is not required but faith certainly is a prerequisite. I don't mean to say that...

The seeds for yesterday were planted years ago when I started following Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area on social media. See...