Early Work, Self-Portrait 1977
Give It Everything You’ve Got
Update on My Book Exploration of Depth, Light, and Love
Texas Fields in Gold, Mauve, and Dusty Blue
Facing the World, Self-Portrait
Recommendation: “Life and Death in Shanghai” by Nien Cheng
Advice to an Artist 2 Suggestions
Rebirth: Death and Life through Art
Today is Easter, a symbol of death and rebirth. It is a beautiful thought that though the child passed away 14 or 15 years ago, she lives on the memory -- through a drawing that will always be alive.
Update on my WIP Model in the Studio
Today’s update on Model in the Studio, wip, oil on linen, 42x56” It is very interesting that there is a war going on now in the humanities, arts, and in politics. Essentially it’s reason, perception, truth, science, human values, benevolence, resolution, sense, and evolution vs. misinterpretation, manipulation, lies, opinion, ignorance, snark, malevolence, arbitrary, senseless, and devolution. I could not be happier and I chose wisely. Everything in this painting is in the first group, the 2nd group is post modern crap. Hard work and flourishing or bitter rage? Apparently for many people it’s not an easy choice.
Want to Know What Your Future Is? Examine the Art You Like and the Art of Your Time
The future awaiting you is to be seen in the art you engage with. Will I have beauty in my life? Am I doomed to depression? Will justice prevail? Will I be happy? Will I be cut up by a chainsaw? Will I throw myself over a cliff or find exaltation in living in the present?
When Two Become One
My friend Karl died last year and his husband Mark Coel sent me an image of a pendant he had made honoring their relationship.
My Guide to Visiting a Museum
Being an Artist: Approach Art Like a Child
Newberry Art Tutorials Expressing artistic vision, aside from all of the technical stuff, is really no more difficult than a child, left to his imagination, creating a little universe out of paper and crayon. On the other side of the spectrum, da Vinci and Michelangelo went beyond the confines of being craftsmen to establishing themselves …
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