I am back! Did ya miss me? Values, values, values… If you are an artist of any kind you will have heard this word and typically get bombarded by this term in workshops. It is a word that typically refers to how light or dark a color or shape is in a painting. New...
It is funny what triggers a memory. I recently cleared out my childhood home and put it on the market to be sold. Not a fun task to be sure. So many forgotten memories dredged up and put into storage, my loft or into a dumpster. Life changes quickly. When I was...
Oils are a challenge for me. So when I get a new commissions and they want the paintings to be in the oil medium, for me it is like stepping up to the plate in a very big game. Pastel comes more naturally for me. Not sure why. I remember being very young and my...
So over Thanksgiving I was in Baltimore. My son and I got to stay with my daughter and see how she has carved out her life there. How she decorates her townhouse, what life is like in the Harbor (one word-cold) and where she works at Johns Hopkins, One day I was in...
I have been jamming along…. I have been busy working along on my commissions, but I can’t post them again until the client sees the actual paintings. Sorry! I feel that they deserve to be the first to see the final images. So here is an other musical...
at nightSo as much as I would love to get my hands covered in dusty, dense pastels, I first have commission work to do in oils… I find commissions invigorating. I get to meet new people, collaborate on designs for clients (a throw-back to my illustrator days) and I...
