Here in the Southern USA spring started early. My car and literally everything else is constantly covered in pine pollen. However, it is beautiful here with trees and flowers blooming in full. I notice that green appears on my palette as well. My studio is now blooming with new paintings. Since the beginning of … Continue reading
It all started as an experiment with the new fat block of ArtGraf No.1 kneadable graphite and then the images took over, tumbling out…they are still coming. There are times when the image becomes very personal. I’m sure that is always true to an extent. Sometimes they are more intimate. Perhaps it is best not … Continue reading
The beginning of the year in the studio until now and continuing are painting commissions and exhibits to prepare for. I am not complaining. No way! But there comes a time when it is necessary to stray off the path and play. By that I mean experiment with mediums. Today was the day to play … Continue reading
While continuing my series of drawings on TerraSkin, I see a new direction. I began adding color, using the many varieties of India ink even though I liked the monochromatic images. Then came the realization that perhaps they could be translated into paintings. Now comes the experimentation with larger works on board in anticipation of adding … Continue reading
I’m back!! This spring and summer have been so incredibly busy that I hardly know where to begin. Seriously. Summer is usually my quiet studio time, but not this summer. It really started in the spring with my trip to Chicago and the visit to the Botanic Gardens. Returning to the studio was … Continue reading
Drawing, making works on paper, is my way of investigating every series of paintings upon which I embark. For the two series that are growing simultaneously, “Passages” and “Layers of Memory”, I am continuing to investigate while both series are well underway, having begun both in 2012. At first I thought there would be a … Continue reading
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This is the studio before. I moved into this studio last March. For many years, I have had a studio at the Artisan Resource Center. So far I’ve inhabited three studios in this complex. This one the best so far since I have so much room to paint, teach, conduct workshops. What can I say, … Continue reading
When I got the prompt from C4ward March Blogathon for day three, I thought to myself this will be easy. The prompt says: look at your body of creative work past and present. What work is your favorite? An image immediately popped into my head and I said that’s it. Well, I started to think … Continue reading
to write figure and form the subjective becomes tangible accompanied by music motion The line–fast, confidant, daring, meditative Alternation of emptiness and mass reflecting introspection Hues glow rich, mutable and textural unlock sensations superficial and profound symbolic, metaphorical accidental and absure celestial and earthly Synchronicity
