As long as I am talking about color, I have found a friend in a color that has gone underestimated on the color wheel. Yellow Ochre….. For some reason, (and I have been very guilty of this) artists try to build portraits in oranges, pinks and boring browns. I see...
Hello and Happy New Year! Forgive me for being gone for a while, I was working on this new website along with making the blog posts better and easier to access. I learned a few very important things in the process… #1. A working website is worth its weight in...
Years ago I heard an artist talking about the lesson he learned while delivering a portrait….. He drove to the client’s house with a finished painting and had even framed it nicely under glass. He met the client at the door and the client then went with him to...
It is time to get my hands dirty. As I work I keep beside me my “minders”- all the things that I have worked on up until this point to keep the paintings on track- sketches, intention statements, color studies, selected color harmony and notes from the photo session....
So after the best photos are picked out with the client, I ruthlessly go through them at home and always ask myself as I go along…”Is this them?”… “Is this the child I met?”… And also, “ Is this how they would want to be remembered 20 years from...
