"I paint lots of small pictures. It’s not perversity that makes me paint them. I just believe in them, because I believe that as an artist I can only speak to one person at a time."  Howard Hodgkin, Where Silence Becomes Object

I've been prepping paper for painting…

The Block Island excursion was mostly a lot of work. I'm just happy to move on and put that year behind me now…

For any fellow humans on a creative journey, this struck a chord with me today... maybe with you too…

The Story of Why I'm Venturing North to Block Island Tomorrow, And Why It's Not At All How It Was Supposed To Be, But Why That's Okay (I Think)

I love days like today. Took a day off from work and headed out in search once again for the perfect place for looking and painting.

In a recent post I described a little bit in my own words from my own head how I believe good painters work and think.

Lancaster Creates is an article that includes some really amazing local artists worth reading about and seeing a selection of their creative works.

I've always thought there must be some deep hidden secret to being a “good” painter, and if I just worked long and hard enough, read enough, looked enough, eventually I would figure it out…

Looking at David Hockney and wanting to play with multiple perspectives. And more color.

One of my favorite take-aways from a recent visit to San Francisco was a 1976 special prints issue of ARTnews magazine in which a rare interview with the reclusive artist Agnes Martin was published. I found this magazine in the back corner room of a large art supply store (Flax, if you've ever been) for $2.

This morning I was up at 5 a.m. working out this painting. It's always been my favorite time of day.

I am not interested in painting pictures. I haven't been for a long time. And yet I keep painting pictures…

"Move beyond any attachment to names.
Every war and every conflict
between human beings
has happened because of some disagreement
about names…” (Rumi)

From The History of Love by Nicole Krauss…