I had fun, I mean really had fun, this weekend working on this third try at the "gods and monsters" theme for display this Friday. A lot of the time when I'm painting, I feel like I'm fighting with the paint, which isn't necessarily a bad thing results-wise, but it can be frustrating, and hence, not… read more.

In preparation for the arts festival on Sunday, I managed to build my own stretcher bars and stretch two canvases today. Sometimes I amaze myself! I have never done this before, and I always imagined it would be a huge undertaking. I should have taken pictures of the process, but I was too engrossed… read more.

I'm noticing more and more in my own work that bad art results from trying to paint "things." The idea of looking at objects or a landscape or a still life arrangement and seeing it as a combination of shapes or planes formed by color, value, line, and texture, is a very basic concept that forever changed… read more.