Let’s face it. Paint is expensive. Whether you’re using watercolor, oil, acrylic or gouache… or whatever might be your medium of choice, every artist wants to squeeze the very last drop from each tube. Color is not something you want to waste. For years I struggled with pesky paint tubes trying to squeeze out the […]
Recently I had an fortunate/unfortunate experience in the process of selling a large canvas. (Well, 4′ x 4′- not that large.) Having someone fall in love with the painting and take it to a new, happy home was great. A successful sale was great. But one of the stretcher bars had warped. Not so […]
LAST WEEK when we were hiking at Tsankawi Ruins in the Jemez Mountains, I heard flocks of cranes flying above us. It’s a very different sound, a chorus of croaking, chortling, rattley, raspy calls… quite unmistakable. (The Forest service says that “Both the males and females make a rattling “kar-r-r-r- o-o-o” sound.”) As soon as […]
Have you ever suddenly discovered a simple act that makes your life immensely easier? A no-brainer that you should have figured out years ago? For instance, when I finally figured out (after YEARS of working with pen and ink with students of all ages) that if I used a little masking tape to secure the […]
I have an exhibition opening this Friday night in Brattleboro, Vermont. The Gallery in the Woods is eclectic and lovely. All of the work is top notch. I’m very pleased to have been invited to exhibit there. It isn’t in the woods at all, it’s at 145 Main street, right downtown. This is First Friday […]
I have an exhibition opening this Friday night in Brattleboro, Vermont. The Gallery in the Woods is eclectic and lovely. All of the work is top notch. I’m very pleased to have been invited to exhibit there. It isn’t in the woods at all, it’s at 145 Main street, right downtown. This is First Friday […]
Why does this steamy tropical world thrill me? Perhaps it’s the mystery of a once grand civilization whose history is expressed in enigmatic images… In art. All that remains is their art. Their architecture. Their monuments. The mysterious glyphs. But even that the jungle has claimed. Buried in centuries of layers of leaf litter turned […]
St. Johnsbury, Vermont is in what Vermonters call the “North East Kingdom.” It’s waaaaaay up in the northeast corner of the state, pretty far from just about anywhere. I was there recently to take down a show of my work in the North East Kingdom Artisan’s Guild that had been up for 6 weeks. On […]
I LOVE MOLESKINS I mean the little moleskin notebooks that fit in your pocket or purse or back pack. Not actual rodent mole skins like the ones my eldest brother used to catch when we were kids. My moleskin organizes my life. Thanks to Alyson Stanfield, whose website and online classes I highly recommend, I […]
From Buffalo to Boston; from Maryland to Maine I used to do a lot of weekend and/or outdoor art fairs, all over the eastern part of the US and beyond. I even drove my car and a trailer into a headwind from Vermont to Arizona one windy spring for a show at the Scottsdale Museum […]