Six Stages of Making a Painting

6 Stages of Making a Painting I’m sure all artists work differently, but I have discovered that I go through … More

Art and Spontaneous Profanity

Did you ever screw up something so bad, profanity spontaneously sprang from your lips? I’ve been working on these pour/paint … More

How is your week going? Good, I hope. I’ve been working on books and more specifically, art for books. I … More

(Poem by Robert Frost) Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He … More

The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel … More

Since the beginning of humanity until only very recently, people lived in intimacy with nature. I like the proverb attributed … More

Yesterday’s painting was pulled out of that mysterious space between my ears, which always worries me a little. What’s real … More

As I mentioned in a previous blog, I was kicked out of the woods where I usually roam and was … More

Making art is a spiritual activity in that an artist attempts to look beyond appearances, to see through to some … More

While painting “Palm Tree” I kept thinking this painting was about “seeing through;” seeing the light through the branches of … More