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Free Workshop March 4
There is an exciting opportunity coming up that I want to share with you… Nicholas Wilton, is about to begin his annual Art2Life Online Workshop. It begins on March 4, but free registration is open now! It is an entire week of teaching from Nicholas, designed to help...
Free Workshop with Nicholas Wilton
There is an exciting opportunity coming up that I want to share with you... Nicholas Wilton, is about to begin his annual Art2Life Online Workshop. It begins on February 14, but free registration is open now! It is an entire week of teaching from Nicholas, designed to...
Colonizers
Collage done right can be a brilliant addition to a work of art. I am dipping my toe into using collage and collage elements in my work. I have huge respect for those artists who do this well. Jane Ash Poitras is a Canadian artist who uses collage to make work that is...
It’s Not About You
This Spring of 2020 ticks all the boxes for pivotal moments. The murder of Floyd George in May triggered protests across the globe against racism in general and in particular with regard to policing. I have been trying to educate myself on my own biases as well as how...
Hat Tip to Corre Alice
I have walls again! Not only that I have a tiny loft studio in our new tiny condo. So I have been painting like I did in "days of old' when I painted all the time. Twenty paintings in 4 months and it feels awesome. Getting started again into that kind of regimen was a...
Blink
Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, followed this success with Blink, about the choices that we make in the blink of an eye without the time for thinking. How some people can make good choices and some make egregious errors. This painting is called...
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Welcome to my current gypsy lifestyle! I am in transition and some upheaval on all fronts in terms of where I live and where I paint. If you have a violin and 2 quarters change I will tell you the whole story. It is ALL good. However, the bottom line is that I just...
Trust and Reach … Repeat
What's next? What's possible? Where is the growing edge? How can I play there? These are the questions that motivate me and make me want to grow and that fuel my creativity. This is not the path that all artists take but it seems to be mine. The spark for this...
Orphan Paintings
Galleries love artists who work in series. Artists build their reputation on presenting a consistent recognizable style to the world. Of course it is often permissible to work in two different series if what interests you is vastly different. Years ago when I was...
Am I done yet?
Like any great work or performance - some things flow and then there are the times when we struggle. Sometimes the struggle is a gift because when it is extreme enough it is clear that something is wrong. If the issue is composition no amount of applying technique can...