Time to chat about composition with Patrick Lee. Over the last month I have been talking about composition and how artists can control their images. After analyzing some of Patrick Lees paintings, now it is time to meet Patrick Lee. A Pittsburgh artist like me, Pat...
A focal point in an image is key. You have heard me say that again and again. Let’s see how Patrick channels a focal point in this painting with color and through composition. Paintings are not made up of “things.” Good paintings are made up of good...
So the textures in Patrick Lee’s paintings are unsurpassed. Yet it is the composition that makes you look twice… Let’s take a look at the one that is in my kitchen again… In Greyscale and upside down, the painting looks like this… Broken...
I love butterflies. How weird and wonderful that they taste flowers with their feet. I miss butterflies. I seem to have memories of them always around when I was a child. Big monarchs and lots and lots of simple white ones. Every once in a while, a blue one would come...
Someone asked me recently what was the most difficult commission I have ever done. And without hesitation I thought of one of the very first ones I ever did. I used to do art festivals. You know, the ones that pop up every year in the summer. I had to lug around my...
