Why am I voting for so many abstract paintings?! For as long as I can remember, I have loved realism more than abstraction. I can appreciate the concepts of abstract art, but I have always preferred to see some sort of narrative. At one point, while taking a ceramics class I...
Michael Guilmet is one of the most philosophical and probing artist I know. Today on Facebook he posted the question: "WHY do you paint? Not when, who, how or who...
Vincent Desiderio Workshop I wanted to pass on this link to Mike Manley's daily studio Blog, Draw! He writes about a painting workshop he attended that was instructed by Vincent Desiderio. It's been a long time since my class with Desiderio, so I found it helpful to see his technique...
A New Direction in Art Education, The Florence Academy of Art, Andy Warhol, and a New Aesthetic Movement, by Dr. Gregory Hedberg, is an excellent article that explains the evolution of academic art in the past two decades. I was part of the larger group; when I graduated...
Many people and institutions that I admire are unhappy about Facebook's policy on censoring nudity in artwork. Simply put, I think that Facebook has a right to censor nudity on their own site. I certainly don't believe that artwork with nude figures need to be censored from the...