There’s not much I love doing more than painting, but cross-country skiing comes close. There are many beautiful days in the winter when I‘m torn between either painting or skiing, wishing for more hours of daylight to get them both in. ... Read More...
How to Mix Realistic Skin Colors and Avoid the Chalky or Muddy Look
January 14, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Mixing skin colors can be challenging. Flesh often contains hints of every color of the rainbow! Plus, it’s easy for skin tones to become “chalky” or “muddy.” In this article, I’ll share information to help you mix realistic, lively flesh ... Read More...
What it Means to be an Artist
January 7, 2019 by Leave a Comment
When I started this journey of being an artist, I didn’t realize how many different kinds of artists or artist markets exist. I am not talking about styles of art, realism verse abstractionism or folk verses traditional. I mean artists ... Read More...
Art to Elders – A Work of Love
December 31, 2018 by Leave a Comment
For the past ten years, I have been working with a most interesting population of individuals. They have offered me a wealth of wisdom, from their stories to their habits, from their aches and pains to their memory loss. That group of ... Read More...
The Necessity of Story
December 24, 2018 by Leave a Comment
I've spent a good bit of time breaking down the components of painting in order to become more thoughtful about my work and to help others do the same. To my way of thinking, the intent of the work is the number one consideration in any ... Read More...
Some Thoughts About Using Photography
December 17, 2018 by Leave a Comment
This year I was asked what my thoughts are about painting from photographs and if this is a practice I use. There is much I can write about, and I will start with……. Yes, I paint from photographs. But the painting does not look like the ... Read More...
Live Preppy
December 10, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Preppy was a term tossed around a few decades ago. It referred to the behavior of someone who went to a preparatory school. Or, it could refer to a logo-laden dress code. The word and the style fell from favor, but I’ve always liked the ... Read More...
On Craft and Art
December 3, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Today we live in the midst of a revolution of art the likes of which the world has never seen. Through the overabundance of art instruction and marketing via social media and the internet, great masses of student artists have emerged. ... Read More...
Know Your Subject Well
November 26, 2018 by Leave a Comment
When I first left the studio to pursue plein air several years ago I would look for a variety of subject. Real variety. In the course of events I might paint a winding road, a lone tree, a bicycle, two old men in a diner, a summer lake at ... Read More...
More Stuff I Wish Someone Had Told Me
November 19, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Three years ago I wrote a blog about things I’ve learned over the last thirty years as an artist. These are things we may have heard in school or elsewhere, but, like Dorothy Gale, perhaps we may have just had to ‘learn it for ... Read More...
