Recap

I was very honored to be on the faculty of Pastel LIVE this past week. It was 4 full days of pastel, pastel, pastel….so you know I was happy and in good company with artists from all over the world.  It was amazing to watch all the demos and see the many different...

Life

Drawing from life….like running scales on a piano for a musician, it is crucial. So I run a drawing session nearly every week with a live model at the Greenville Center for Creative Arts right next to my home in South Carolina.  The cool thing is that the...

Playing Pool

  Pool players become good at the game when they understand one thing- the “angle of incidence.” What is the angle of incidence? Well, simply, it means what goes in is the same as what comes out. If a ball is hit into the side wall of the pool table...

Getting Lit

ee  Last week I talked about “getting lit” with Eric Rhodes on Art School LIVE.  If you know how I work at all, you know my paintings go through 5 layers, so I decided to show part of my process of building a painting and showed the second stage- which is...

Pumice, Rotten Stone and a Few Interviews!

So every once in a while I play with creating a more radical surface. A few years ago I was really experimenting with creating my own surfaces and had some luck with it. With how expensive everything is nowadays I have been thinking about it again. The easiest thing...