The Yellow Stage

Last Friday I did a zoom lecture. I was asked by the Pittsburgh architecture firm, Maclachlan, Cornelius and Filoni (MCF) to start off a lecture series they are doing every month for their company and invited clients featuring an artist. I was happy to do it. I only...

The Color of Light

All light sources have an inherent color. Photos (darn them) tend to throw things off- we see things covered in “white light” yet, did you ever create a painting say, of a sunset, and when you added white for the brightest part of the sky it just looked...

Composition

“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.” – Josef Albers This is a statement I have heard more or less from masterful artists over the years. Clyde Aspervig comes to mind. (if you are not familiar with his...

Color

Let’s talk color. The Itten color wheel was introduced to me many, many years ago by another artist and it is one of the biggest tools that have impacted my work. Like most artists, I had heard of “color harmonies” but besides vaguely understanding...

Conventional

Poor little potato. I have been getting the food service Green Chef delivered to my house over the last few months and it has been great. A few nights a week I know exactly what I am making for dinner, and everything comes fresh straight to my door, so I don’t...