Whitman #5, 8" X 8", acrylic pn paper, 2010, Mark W. McGinnis Walt Whitman & the 21st Century The 1850’s of Walt Whitman’s most creative...

Dear Students — Well, a few short days and we will once again be paintings in the beautiful Black Hills. We have about a dozen students ...

Mark W. McGinnis: “This is a group of twenty essays some with ‘big’ themes such as beauty, death, ego, freedom, and sex. Also included...

$8.99 Available from: Amazon.com for Kindle (black & white) Barnes & Noble for Nook (do title search) (color for colornook) iBooks for...

In particular the Hoh Rainforest was breathtaking–the great trees, mosses, ferns, birds, bugs–layers and layers of life, life that has...

Mark W. McGinnis: “Designs of Faith is a series of 12 large multi-panel paintings and 12 essays. The subject of both the paintings and...

$8.99 Mark W. McGinnis’ approach to Watercolor Sketching. The book discusses materials, design, techniques, content, style, and the...

Split Ash & Birds (from the Sentient Landscape Series) acrylic on panel, Mark W. McGinnis The term non-resistance can have radically...

With the now beautiful color available with the iPad and the Color Nook I have decided to make a series of my books available via eBooks....

There will be two new demonstrations as part of the the 2011 Black Hills Watercolor Sketching Class. The first will be a Black Ink...

from the Issa project, 8" X 8" 2008, Mark W. McGinnis What is significant? What is not significant? As with beauty this seems to be a...

WATERCOLOR SKETCHING in THE BLACK HILLS of SD with Mark W. McGinnis -students will be accepted on beginning to advanced levels (advanced...

Mice on Sauk Mt., acrylic on panel, 36" X 24", 2010, Mark W. McGinnis The old saying the “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is, of...

Issa #100, "8x8", 2007, Mark W. McGinnis The development of consciousness in human beings have left most with what seems to an incurable...

WATERCOLOR SKETCHING in BOISE, IDAHO with Mark W. McGinnis* –students will be accepted on beginning to advanced levels – Class Fee —...

Issa - Bonfires Burn Out, acrylic on paper, 2008, Mark W. McGinnis Our understanding of evil has many times been tied to our...

Diablo Lake - North Cascades, acrylic on panel, 20" X 16", 2010 This essay was presented on November 7th at the Boise...

A Northwest rainforest is a good place to think about lifetime. I can lean on a Douglas fir that has been standing for four to five...

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN CONTENT Line, space, value, shape, mass, texture, and color are the elements of design. Unity, variety, balance,...

CHAPTER SIXTEEN MASS & 3D DESIGN MASS Shape exists in two-dimensions, height and width.  Mass exists in three-dimensions, height, width...