About Chasing Rabbits

On Creativity. (Reposted) I have spent some time teaching small children. It seems to me that the younger someone may be, the more likely one is to raise their hand to the question, “Who in this room is an artist?” As a child, there is little to loose in being...

San Clemente Plein Air

So, on Friday (June 19th) I will be leaving the daily grind to be a gypsy artist for a week. I will take my newly gesso-ed birch panels with me to San Onofre Beach where it will be my outpost for the week. San Clemente hosts a week long Plein Air competition and I...

When did you forget how to draw…?

On another website that I often read, the question was asked… “When did you forget how to draw? – How can we reconnect with our playful, creative, expressive element of our humanity?” I stopped actually drawing twenty years ago, when I got...

On Beauty

We should never mistake glamor for beauty. All that glitters is not gold. Some of the most beautiful moments in life can be the most difficult to look at. Think of the messiness of birth… the broken water, the blood, the crying, the after-birth, but all is...

Il Paradiso II

I have added a glaze to the sky and painted a second layer over the landscape, wiping away some of the bits to let the underpainting show through.  Next, I will go back into the clouds to bring back some highlights and deepen the shadows. Getting close…

Transformation II

So I now have the second draft of this painting. I worked the background sufficiently enough that it matches “Threshold” now much better. I think I will have one more go at the background tomorrow after this dries. Then – when side by side, I will do...