I’m always fascinated with street and urban paintings. I love artists who incorporate streetlights and highway markers and telephone poles. Something about adding them to the landscape adds a human element (since, I guess all those things are man made!) I don’t love to paint wildlife or do portraiture, so this is my way of […]
Tyler Lake – 8×8 on Uart Pastel Society of the Southwest, National Juried Show (forthcoming) The last several weeks have been busy with back-to-school, end-of-summer activities. It’s a strange time. One one hand you are soaking in the lazy days, reveling in the moments of freedom from schedules and lists. The other hand is […]
I sometimes get asked why we call it pastel “painting” if in fact, the pastels are a dry medium similar to chalk. A lot of clients and family and friends think pastels are actually chalk and using them is akin to sidewalk art. Here’s a great explanation of the drawing vs. painting question…. “Using the […]
Red Barn – 8×8 on Uart Buy with PayPal I painted red barn like I was breaking out of a jail cell. Tediousness, fussy detail work, all that stuff that sometimes bogs me down. There is a time for delicacy and a time for patience but when you’re breaking free from a past thought-pattern, […]
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