No regrets
Someone sent me a calendar with very nice reproductions of Impressionist paintings on it. August is a boating scene which I liked – I’m a big fan of Mary Cassatt. […]
Tag Archives: painting
Painters and painting
I’ve been thinking about quantity versus quality lately and for some reason Robert Pirsig’s book –Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – popped into my head, though it has been […]
Painting with intent
There are lots of times when you’re painting that you want to throw in the towel – it’s taking too long, it’s too frustrating, you don’t know what you’re doing. […]
Winter Wedding
It was Oscar Wilde that said something about each man kills the thing he loves – in that case he was talking about remorse, I think. But destroying something you’ve […]
Process
It seems to me that one of the failures of art today is that so many artists need instant gratification. They are in a big hurry to get to the […]
Patterns
Last week, I compared this painting to Manet’s because it is the inverse of his famous ‘Dejeuner sur l’Herbe’ – here, the nude is male while the female is fully […]
String of pearls
Someone asked me about a comment I made in the little video posted here – what did I mean by ‘ the pain becomes a pearl’? That has to do […]
Making faces
Sometimes people ask me, Why do you paint mostly portraits? That’s not an easy question to answer, but I think it’s because faces just lead me to everything about nature. […]
There are no rules
The more layers you build up the flatter it gets – the stuff is underneath, so it’s not the same thing as putting it down flat. You’re working in the […]
Woman in Blue Reading a Letter
Vermeer? I think it’s not quite understood how powerful he is, how powerful those paintings are and how they totally reach out to you and tell you everything you have […]
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