Focused as a Red Laser

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...

Composition is King I tell Ya!

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...

Blue Butterflies

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...

Rattled

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...

Lighting Strikes

My daughter was struck by lightning. Yeah, I knew that would make ya read on! Friends that know me really well know that I have always had weird and bizarre stories to tell. My life has never been boring and apparently my kids have the same affliction. When my...