Would you, could you, pose with your mate tonight for the "Kiss" painting?” He said: "Yes!"
Michelangelo’s Drawings: The Conceptual Transformation from Touch to Sight
Secularization of Hell: The Illusionists, Curated by Michael Pearce at Studio Channel Islands with TRAC2019
What is the point of trying to overthrow one bad aesthetic movement if you are going to replace it with another?
Towards Puccini
They say that art is the technology of the soul. The best of it integrates sensory experience, appeals to our thinking, an internal logic, our imagination, and taps our emotions. When those things come together it triggers our circuits to fire on all frequencies.
Rend
Newberry, "Not to Be Answered", charcoal on Rives BFK, 19x13 inches. Death touched my life when three people near me, in the same year, died. The horrible result was that I felt nothing. One of them was a Dutch woman I didn’t know very well, but we were related in a sense. I knew she …
First They Came for Black
Lighting the Darkness: Jon Wos
Jon Wos, congratulations on the portrait. The pose is thoughtful, the proportions elegant, and you make great use of “Bouguereau” silver lining lighting. I like the texture and lighting of the dress, particularly the brilliant curve of light at the hemline that merges imperceptibly into shadow. And congratulations on being a romantic, though it can …
Transcending Oblivion
Horrified by the subject's meaning backfiring I went through my options, never forgetting that I had already put 3,000 hours towards this work. Every way I looked at it there was no solution that appeared to improve the painting. Michelangelo hacked away a figure not working ...

