Kids are fun. Their personalities are so apparent even at an early age, so when I go to take photos of young children, it is best to get to know them a bit first…. When painting small children, good photo references are crucial. They will not sit still for a painting...
There was a story going around for years of a woman who was dining at a department store restaurant and at the end of eating one of the store’s “famous recipe” cookies, she asked for the recipe….. She got a copy of the recipe, but when she got her...
Most artists have a love/hate relationship with commissions, because they create a threesome- the artist, the artwork and now the client. If you know my work only from facebook, exhibitions or magazines, you may not realize that I have done a lot of commissions. I...
There is a gremlin in my house. It leaves fingerprints all over the place. Especially on door jambs, light switches and on handles…… I think in most homes, the mom would scold the kids of the house, but I know better. It is just me. I am afraid I am the guilty...
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 …»>
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 …»>
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 …»>
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 …»>
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 …»>
"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»>