“Sketch everything, and keep your curiosity fresh.”   – John Singer Sargent “The more I paint, the more I...

We’re inspired. Paint flies. Ideas run rampant and our only fear is one might escape before we get...

In choosing a subject to paint I often find I’m drawn to water. Of all the elements we...

I had the privilege of meeting Suzie Baker, briefly, at the Oil Painters of America (OPA) National Convention, held...

What makes you fall in love with a piece of art? At the 2017 Cowgirl Up! show in...

You enter an art museum… you come around a corner… and there it is: a painting that immediately...

Recently I had the pleasure of taking a trip to Maine with other painter friends. This was not...

I love to paint most everything but my passion is doing figurative work, especially portraits. Nothing is more...

There isn’t time in a blogpost to cover all of the basics of color, and no one wants to read pages of color blather anyway, so the following are a random smattering of thoughts on color that have made sense to me over time.

Attending my high school class’s fiftieth reunion this past June has me in a reflective mood. Home, back...