Life

Drawing from life….like running scales on a piano for a musician, it is crucial. So I run a drawing session nearly every week with a live model at the Greenville Center for Creative Arts right next to my home in South Carolina.  The cool thing is that the...

Playing Pool

  Pool players become good at the game when they understand one thing- the “angle of incidence.” What is the angle of incidence? Well, simply, it means what goes in is the same as what comes out. If a ball is hit into the side wall of the pool table...

Getting Lit

ee  Last week I talked about “getting lit” with Eric Rhodes on Art School LIVE.  If you know how I work at all, you know my paintings go through 5 layers, so I decided to show part of my process of building a painting and showed the second stage- which is...

Pumice, Rotten Stone and a Few Interviews!

So every once in a while I play with creating a more radical surface. A few years ago I was really experimenting with creating my own surfaces and had some luck with it. With how expensive everything is nowadays I have been thinking about it again. The easiest thing...

Concete

Forgive me for the missing blog last week… I was busy bringing my daughter home from college! Pastelmat is a relatively new surface and I have not used it very much, but when I have it feels almost creamy. The layers take pretty well, but at some point the surface...