All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. ~Grant Wood Grant Wood, of American Gothic fame was a mid-western boy who understood the meditative value of chores and cows. I was recently in Burlington Vermont on the shimmering shores of Lake Champlain and had the good […]
How now, Artfully Painted Cow?
June 26th, 2010Who do I blog for? And why?
April 9th, 2010
Edna St Vincent Millay What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou? Edna St. Vincent Millay Blogging is much like shouting into the void. Arias in the wilderness. Cyberspace is vast, dark and airless. Who is even out there? And if there is someone there, are they listening? Why would they? Why […]
Scottsdale
March 24th, 2010
The booth Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. George S. Patton (1885 – 1945) It was a long haul for a calculated risk. Almost 6000 miles back and forth across the wide expanse of America. What a beautiful drive! We have done it twice in the past year, taking a different […]
Scottsdale
March 24th, 2010The booth Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. George S. Patton (1885 – 1945) It was a long haul for a calculated risk. Almost 6000 miles back and forth across the wide expanse of America. What a beautiful drive! We have done it twice in the past year, taking a different […]
Nuances
February 15th, 2010
Raven with Shards “I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”– Pablo Picasso For me it's always a bit of both. Visionary realism is about moving beyond what's immediately visible.The subtleties and nuances always take me forever. I've been tweaking the colors and beak size and shape Raven on Barbed Wire […]
Nuances
February 15th, 2010Raven with Shards “I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”– Pablo Picasso For me it's always a bit of both. Visionary realism is about moving beyond what's immediately visible.The subtleties and nuances always take me forever. I've been tweaking the colors and beak size and shape Raven on Barbed Wire […]
Faster horses
February 6th, 2010
Raven on a wire- not quite finished "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." -Henry Ford Following one's own muse is the only way to success, whether personal or financial, or professional acclaim. Being an artist is a solitary endeavour. Yesterday I spent 13 hours at the easel, […]
Faster horses
February 6th, 2010Raven on a wire- not quite finished "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." -Henry Ford Following one's own muse is the only way to success, whether personal or financial, or professional acclaim. Being an artist is a solitary endeavour. Yesterday I spent 13 hours at the easel, […]
Consider the lily
December 24th, 2009
Peacock and Lily Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. […]
Art, art I want you.
October 2nd, 2009
Kidz Aartz Summer Studio program in my studio in BRandon Vermont Working joyfully with clay in Kidz Aartz The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust I just received a great Youtube connection: inspiration and innocence, set to music, a poem about how important the […]