Warning- if you have an aversion to horror films or are a very tidy artist, you may want to look away… Recently I bought a set of slightly used pastels from another artist. She had an entire set of Giraults (my favs) and she just was not using them since...
“It is not our job to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves Like the trees, and be born again, Drawing up from the great roots.” ~ Robert Bly I found myself complaining recently that I was feeling quite scattered. Starting projects, stopping projects. Throwing...
Some years ago I heard the amazing portrait painter, Howard Sanden, talk about his work. He said the most difficult thing for an artist to overcome is inertia… At the time I thought that was a rather cute way to say “just do it.” But now that...
Monday night was the second meeting of the new Artist Guild here in Pittsburgh. How do I know? I am running it. Guild-/gild/noun – An association of artists and craftsmen coming together for mutual goals; often having considerable power. So you may have read...
Oh the happiness of a well-struck red… So continuing my talk about this painting, I was very tickled when I started adding in the light catching on the ends of her hair that came forward in space and caught the light… just a few scribbles really, made...
I have to say the painting I posted last week has been a different kind of painting for me. I was less interested in “perfect” color or even in a perfect rendering than I was in making a statement. It was rather liberating… Sure, I labored over the...
