There is nothing worse than resigning myself to the idea that I have become a Sunday painter. While in art school it was easy to be an artist. I was surrounded by art students. Everyone was thinking about painting techniques and concepts. And I had competition to drive...
French School "Portrait of Emile Zola (1840-1902)" "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." -Emile Zola...
This evening I found an old sketchbook of mine when we were moving some things out of a bookshelf. As I was looking through it, thinking about what to draw for my daily sketch, I found some drawings I did of Veronica when she was about a month old. I...
I heard about this exhibition on NPR the other day. The show sounds fascinating! Unfortunately it is at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, CA and won't travel to any other cities in order to preserve the work. What is interesting is that they show you the...
"The student paints things: the mature artist paints ideas about things, or concepts." Leffel...