In September I am teaching two weekly classes… This is rather new for me. I have tended to teach only intensive workshops for a few days and then travel back home and then be lucky I can say my own name afterward! This is because I tend to throw myself into my...
As of this morning I have two girls in college… ThIs morning I put my youngest daughter on a flight to the University of Iowa. My oldest goes back to Kent University. In celebration of the beautiful accomplished women that they have become, I am posting...
Last week I taught my portrait workshop on pastels. We had great models and I had brought in some original portraits. A few artists then asked me to bring in more “figurative” works that I had created. So while perusing the boxes in my studio space where most of my...
One of my favorite books of all time is The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. I know there is a movie coming out soon based on the the book, but I don’t think I can go see the film. The entire …»>
All light sources have an inherent color. Photos tend to throw things off so we see things as "white light” yet did you ever paint something, say, a sunset, and when you added white to the sky it just looked …»>
