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How to Inflate Your Life Raft
Let me begin by saying that 2018 was the most challenging year of my life. Through a series of...
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Remembering the Legendary Everett Raymond Kinstler OPAM
August 5, 1926 – May 26, 2019 How can it be possible, that one of the greatest painters...
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The Artist as Conservationist
Growing up I was always outside exploring the woods and loving the changing light but never thought about...
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A Moment In Time
A moment in time means a couple of things to me. I think each of our lives is...
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Making Art Inevitable
“The object isn’t to make art, but be in that wonderful state that makes art inevitable” – Robert...
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Saving What Works
I think every artist has them. Paintings that for some reason just do not work out. They are...
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Turning Your Art Into a Business
OPA thanks Artwork Archives for being one of its 2019 sponsors.  We appreciate your support! Eight questions to...
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Finding Your Surface
One day a painter friend gave me a linen panel. It was a primed with four coats of...
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Just Kids
What makes portraits of kids so delightful? Besides the fact that children are active and endearing, there are...
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Painting a Series
We all have them – our personal favorite painting, the baby, the one painting you were born to...
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