Sushi and a Blanket Fort

Please tell me 2020 is almost over… I don’t need to remind anyone that this has been a tough year. 2020 taught us some hard lessons about appreciating what we have, the value of our health and finding new ways to entertain ourselves while the world burns....

The Interview

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...

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...