Pancakes
I am not a weepy person. I think the years have coated me a bit in a tough, cynical shell, but sometimes I come across a painting that breaks through my armor, reminds me of why I became an artist and makes me want to run to my easel. My ideas suddenly bigger than I...The Shape of Things
Composing simple shapes in a painting is one of the most important things you can do compositionally. And the hardest…… Having variety in shapes leads to a more interesting painting and to a more sophisticated-looking design. Here is a painting I did a while ago…...Recent Posts
Making Lemonade Part 2
I have to say the painting I posted last week has been a different kind of painting for me. I was less interested in “perfect” color or even in a perfect rendering than I was in making a statement. It …»>
Making Lemonade
So the painting I posted last week went thought a bunch of stages. Here is the beginning of the painting… Unlike most pastellists, I like working on a white surface. Since I used to work in watercolor, I find a …»>
Lemons
Welcome to the first blog of the New Year and to the first painting of my New Life...»>
Another Old Lang Syne
I love music. There are songs that for some reason or another go right through me. They can bring me right back to a certain age and what was going on in my life right then… I am not a musician, I was …»>
Traveling
Nope, I am not talking about going anywhere… I am talking about how shapes can be put to use through design to travel around an image. A master? Norman Rockwell. Last week I came across this image on Facebook. It stopped me in my …»>
Artist Guild
5 months ago I moved to an amazing little town 15 minutes from downtown Pittsburgh. My location was deliberate. There are artists here. And as I have walked around town going to pilates, the grocery store and even while snacking at the …»>
Ferrari Red
"You can only paint the smell of damp pine needles by being there: a photograph is a poor substitute for working from the real thing when painting a landscape." -David Bellamy»>