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Digital Painting Articles
Create Digital Greeting Card using Photoshop
An article on how to create a digital greeting card using Adobe Photoshop. Click the following link if you want a PDF version of the article. You’ll find this article in “Creating Digital Paintings,” which is available from Amazon.
Create and Add a Watermark to a Digital Image
An article on How to Create and Add a Watermark to a Digital Image using Adobe Photoshop. Click the following link if you want a PDF version of the article. You’ll find this article in “Creating Digital Paintings,” which is available from Amazon.
Create a Cyanotype Digital Painting
This article is taken from a section in my “Creating Digital Painting” book on how to create a Cyanotype digital painting, which is available from Amazon. Click the following link for a PDF version of the article.
Golf Articles
Golf with Jack: A Tribute to My Father
A chapter from my new book – a tribute to my father and how he introduced me to golf. Starting at 10 years old as a caddie for my mother to playing my last round with my father—those were special moments for me on the golf course.
Going Home Again
A chapter from my new book – “Golf a la Cart Version 2: Selected Adventures on the Golf Course,” is a column about returning to play the golf course where I learned the game of golf. Wellesley Country Club is where I started as a member – caddie and worked as an assistant golf pro.
Beginners Guide to Playing Golf
A chapter from my forthcoming book – “Golf a la Cart Version 2: Selected Adventures on the Golf Course,” is an old column called “Beginners Guide to Playing Golf” about the challenges new golfers face trying to play golf at a public golf course. I found in my files what was written upon the request of a co-worker. It is challenging to balance learning the game while playing on a public golf course full of weekend golfers. Here is a PDF version of the column.
Is This the Greatest Golf Photo Ever?
The digital painting is based on the famous Hy Peskin’s photograph of Ben Hogan’s 1-iron shot at Marion Golf Course during the 1950 U.S. Open. The photograph was taken from behind during Hogan’s follow-through. Is it the most famous pictures in golf? Learn the history behind the photograph. Here is a PDF version of the article.
Travel Articles
Tipping
A column on providing the proper gratuity for your meal and other services.
Can I Go Too
A manuscript by my late dog, Kimo, told me how to take your dog with you when you travel from his point of view.
General
Spy Planes
This is an article about America’s fastest spy plane, the SR-71 Blackbird, along with the U2, provided “eyes in the sky” for years.
Tom Clancy’s Reject a Hit Letter
I wrote this column years ago when Writer’s Digest published a feature on the magazine’s last page called “Reject a Hit.” The feature’s premise was a fake letter written by the editor of some publisher to famous authors rejecting their book-length manuscripts. Click here for a PDF version of the column.
Acts of Kindness – Nice Stories
Maybe it’s time to stop and reflect on what “America” really means. With all that is going on – the polarization of our country, we’ve been so inundated we become jaded – you’d think everything is terrible. However, good things happen all the time. People do something daily that makes this the greatest country in the world. Only you rarely hear about them. You only hear about the bad things that happen to people. Here are a few good stories that happened to me or someone told me during a social conversation. Maybe something like this has happened to you, or perhaps you’ve done something to help others.