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...

Wallis, Ersta and Ya Cai

“Don’t it always seem to go, you never know what you’ve got ’til its gone…” – Joni MItchell So I was in love with the Wallis surface. It was pure white and it took layers like a champion. Later they introduced, “Belgium mist.” It came in rolls as...

Canson

This is normally where it begins…the addiction. An artist gets a set of pastels or takes a class and starts to play around with this medium.  Typically this is the surface one starts on.  Not expensive and no grit like the others mentioned here the last few weeks.  It...