Tropical Pond Painting - Up Close
I wanted to paint a tranquil place—a place where water swirled but didn’t rush, where plants were juicy and the light was inspiring. My canvas was tall and narrow, or short and wide, depending on which way I turned it…
Neat Stuff I Learned Painting Brass Era Cars
Oh, the Brass Era cars! Not only were they mechanical wonders, but they looked like a million bucks! For the roughly 20 year period from 1896-1915, these horseless carriages turned heads and caught the sunlight…
How To Transfer Sketches To Canvas
Anyone lost in a good doodle knows, the vision just flows when the pressure is off. That’s the beauty of a sketch. No expensive paints wasted. No clean canvases compromised. Just a cool idea scratched to life in it’s barest form. But…
Retro Clock Painting
Anyone here remember winding a clock? The kind where a snooze button is an actual button—not a spot on a screen. You can feel the hard edges, hear the grind and click. These mechanical details aren’t so common these days, but I remember them. And these bits of nostalgia came rushing in with…
Cozy Coastal Scarves
February in Florida is cold! Or so we like to think. It may not be the frozen tundra, but when the temperature drops to 40 it feels like Antarctica to us warm-bloods. The funny thing about Florida Winters though, is temps can be freezing in the morning, and rise to the 80's by noon…
Color Wordplay
While searching online for tweed fabric today, I became totally distracted and amused by the color descriptions. My favorite was a dark grey titled "gargoyle"...
Finishing
Working on the final touches of 'Messengers'. I was finished one day, and then I wasn't. The next day I was really finished, until I realized that I wasn't...
Hands Are Like Trees
Hands are like trees. Hmmm. Maybe I only imagined this because I was outside, but there really seem to be similarities between the two. An arm is like a trunk...
Favorite Brushes
My favorite variety of paint brushes. It's really different for each artist, some things just resonate with a person, like favorite flowers. For me, these are the ones that...
Transformation
If you hear the soft rush of wings, be still. I sketched this years ago, but I decided to dust it off for this blog. I'm happy to see the calmness in her face again...
Little Things Blooming
A few paintings in the works... little box canvases with very wet black edges. Kicking myself for painting the sides before the fronts were finished...
Ghost Writers
In the hopes that the story is still being written in some ethereal productive place. We all have our things, our dearest projects that consume our minds and fill our hearts...
In The Loop
Most of us know the classic conundrum, "If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" I've always loved the way this question makes me think...