Self Reflection Historically, many artists painted self portraits. I would imagine that some cave paintings were not only paintings of...

Each of these is its own topic, so I’m going to do a sketch of all three; because... they are related. All this art stuff is related and...

As a matter of full disclosure, I’m a colorblind painter. I’ve mentioned this before, so I will address the elephant in the room. I am...

I should take only one of those, and I spoke about symbolism in my last post, so let’s go from there. Making marks, aka mark making,...

7-14-20 I have been accused of being focused on process in life. Many artists will say there are no tricks or shortcuts to painting, but...

Symbolism is a really interesting topic. There is symbolism in the arts... music, poetry, literature, dance, theater and painting. One of...

Part II: It’s complicated. I’m probably more of a poet than a painter. Fortunately, painting is visual poetry. Poetry came naturally to...

I don’t really even know how to convey this thought, but I never ever imagined I would be writing about teachers when I was a student. It...

1. Monday 9 am -12 pm cats... sleep, can’t paint with cats... they live a life of attention scarcity and a paint laden pallet is the...

I recently had the opportunity to show two of my paintings at the Yellow Barn Studio and Gallery in Glen Echo, Maryland. The studio held...

My son created his first lino art print! He also created a second one as a gift to me. We gave each other mushroom (Amanita Muscaria)...

Today I had the opportunity to support my Mentor, Walter Bartman, with his Paint Out at the Historic Oatland House and Gardens in...

9 x 12 oil on canvas, Lewes, DE

Passages... that's the closest I can come to labeling an upsetting experience I had artistically growing up... a loss of innocence,...

I'm on a journey to make art, to paint, classically, realistically and then painterly... men, women, trees and plants, cows, oceans,...