Sometimes a painting just keeps tapping me on the shoulder until I confront it, design it and then try to execute it. Sometimes this conversation with an image takes years. This painting has been 8 years in the making. That is how long I have been without my mom....
I am always impressed by those artists that try so hard to keep their pastels squeaky clean. They post photos of dust wands full of feathers that they use to collect dust across their trays of color or jars full of rice or cornmeal that they lovingly bathe their...
A quick tip for those working in pastels this week… I just came across this envelope in my studio and had forgotten I used to use this all the time. Nowadays I don’t worry too much about sharpening my pastel pencils to a sharp point. I figure if I am...
Do you hate the painting you are working on? Frustrated with it and just wanna get it “over with?” I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but anyone looking at the painting will know… Wyeth said, “I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence...
“It’s all in how you arrange the thing… the careful balance of the design is the motion.” – Andrew Wyeth Yup… composition is king. I didn’t appreciate Wyeth’s paintings in regard to composition until relatively recently. Composition...
