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Laurie Moore is a professional artist who specializes in painting photo-realistic portraits.

02/27/2026

I enjoyed this opportunity to share about my art and my background through this publication.
Click the link to read the article.

02/09/2026

Today I wrapped up my third year in a row as an artist at today. Grateful for the ways I have grown professionally, and for all the connections I’ve been able to make as a direct result of this show.

With this year’s show behind me, I am able to reassess the direction I would like to go this year.
I intend to wrap up a few commissions I’ve got in the works. After that, I have no immediate plans to create any artwork intended for art fairs.

Regarding my portraiture work, I will continue accepting custom portrait commissions, including live events (such as weddings).
I’m extremely interested in securing a partnership with an agency that specializes in connecting clients with portrait artists.
So, sending out my portfolio is on the agenda.
I can’t do it all, and I don’t care to.
My time and energy is too valuable to squander it doing tasks other people are better suited for. I’d happily share a percentage if it means I can focus more on what I do best, instead of exhausting myself like a hamster on a wheel trying to wear every hat needed in a functional business. I don’t care about social media likes and it’s draining to force myself to pretend like I do.

Beyond that, there are quite a few paintings I have been holding back from creating in effort to keep my business neutral in regards to politics, religion, etc..
What I’ve been taught from others in the industry is that it’s essentially counterintuitive to making a sale if a patron gets emotionally wrapped up in an ideological discussion.

I get that. I can accept it.
However, choosing ambivalence during times of stability is not the same thing as what it means to stay silent during times of turmoil.
Choosing to say nothing, do nothing, when civil rights are being trampled and revoked IS saying quite a bit actually.
Concealing what’s on my mind has never been my strong suit anyways, so this truly would be a tragic time to pick up the practice.

I have the capability to invent images that don’t exist and render them believable to life. I’ve worked incredibly hard to amass the knowledge required to achieve this skillset.
It is powerful, and I know it.
Furthermore, I don’t need a data center ravaging the last remnants of paradise in order to do it either.

Visual imagery is communication just like the written word. My ability to communicate through images transcends linguistic differences. A border can’t keep it out. Once it’s out there, good luck trying to erase it.
If the pen is mightier than the sword, it seems reasonable to me that my brush is more effective than some half-wit “boogaloo” loser with an inferiority complex.

A wise man once said “with great power comes great responsibility.”
Well, I guess it’s time to get to work making some art that comforts the disturbed, and disturbs the comfortable.
Sales be damned, since my integrity isn’t for sale.

11/30/2025

I am intentionally recording timelapses of my progress as I go. It is fun to watch, but for me it is also instructive. I imagine there a similarities akin to when athletes watch their own footage from games.

11/25/2025

Over the weekend, a good friend of ours was visiting from New York. This means that they were finally able to collect their varnished and framed wedding painting.
This painting was more of a landscape than a figurative work, and was the first piece I ever used something called “cold wax medium.” It has been one of the most textured paintings I’ve made thus far. I loved honoring people I love with my artistic abilities, and enjoyed the growth that results from continuously flirting with the boundaries of my comfort zone.
I used two different stains on the wood frame, and filled the imperfections with silver wood putty.
I feel like a decent framing job can really elevate an artwork.

11/12/2025

Work in progress.

10/27/2025

I solved a first world problem I was experiencing. Combined linear lenses with a cross linear adhesive film over a light, and bam NO GLARE!

Now I can see what I’m doing, sans weird squinting and head bobbing.

10/16/2025

Looking for the right blue or purple for the iris I’m painting.
I desperately want colorimeter 😩. I’ve got my eye on the Nix Mini 3.
I’m using the limited color values I can find on the internet, spread across multiple websites. I shudder to think of the many hours I’ve spent looking for any published color index values for my oil paints.
These swatches are an effort in my ongoing project of categorizing and labeling my materials for efficiency down the line.

I don’t get paid for this, but I’ll plug artistpigments.org for their plethora of information on pigments art materials, and app ChromaMagic. Good to know there are bigger color nerds out there than and I.

10/13/2025

Not going to lie, it is pretty nice to be able to just look at a photo and then paint it. Getting my skills up offers me so much freedom. Ordinarily I would have spent the afternoon at the Box Factory in St. Joe Michigan practicing my portraiture skills. However, last night the insomnia was extra and I decided to take it a little bit easier on myself today. I am working on this painting I already started last week. I intend to write the titles of tax law books on the spines. I will call it “Certainty.” Today I set the low bar for myself of adding a Texas bluebonnet to the arrangement. I grew up in Texas and the wildflowers had their own season.

09/13/2025

What is “good?”
Some of my sketchbooks look more like notebooks than anything. Skill practice isn’t the secret sauce for rapid skill acquisition (personally speaking).

Here are the 5 P’s and the 5 C’s I try to remain cognizant of while working.
Proportion, Placement, Perspective, Planes, Pattern.
Conception, Construction, Contour, Character, and Consistency.

Having all these elements won’t guarantee a masterpiece, but lacking them will ensure a failure.

09/02/2025

The happy couple approves.
It feels good to conclude a project.
Leaning into the textual effects was outside of my norm thus far.
However, I feel it contributed to a stronger painting overall.

I mixed Williamsburg Interference Blue with cold wax medium and applied it sparingly to the surface of the water to give the effect of shimmering highlights.
The dulling properties of the cold wax effectively blunted the iridescence of the pigment. This resulted in glowing, yet subtle, specular highlights on the lake.

08/29/2025

Trying Cold Wax Medium for the first time on this wedding painting.

So far I’m caught off guard by how much I like it. Typically, I do everything I can to create a smooth painting.

I mixed it with my paints and applied it with a knife. I’m choosing to use it on the foliage to add more believable effect through texture.

Hey how about you sell it in a tube? I just tubed some for my own personal use, and it’s a better user experience.

08/13/2025

I love that I was able to purchase directly from and that he thoughtfully included a personalized note when he mailed me this Munsell Value Scale.

I am looking forward to using this in conjunction with the app created by

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