When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field or whatever. Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak … Continue reading →
I was definitely due for a little time off. I started out Thursday night by seeing the National Theater Live performance of Julius Caesar in the mall movie theater. Two hours fifteen minutes or so, straight through without intermission. They’d … Continue reading →
Today was the day the two kittens (now six months old) went to the vets to be neutered. Got there messy and stinky, even though I tried as best I could to clean up the carrier using some paper towels … Continue reading →
Sometimes I just really need to paint. I knew that was true this morning when I heard the price of something and my brain did a painterly conversion: that would be ten blocks of watercolor paper. What would give more … Continue reading →
When my online tutor Alan Owen puts up a video of a scene sometimes I like to paint along without knowing exactly how it will end up. I usually fail to pause for drying as he does but this time … Continue reading →
If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.
