Exploring a New Direction
Hi Friends, I recently took a class with Nancy Reyner called Painting Excellence. It’s interesting that what I expected to get from the class is not what ...
Category: Pushed Paint
Transformations
Hi Friends, My focus this week has been on reworking things that didn’t work out the first time around, and transforming them into something else — ...
The Commission Process
Hi Friends! I was recently commissioned to create two paintings for California State Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin. Jacqui already owns several of my paintings, a...
Fear of Failure
Hello Friends! This happens to me often. I get a beautiful textural background going on a painting, and then I don’t know what to do with it. I’m af...
Ephemeral Art
Greetings Friends! Although I often paint with bright colors, I’ve been enjoying the quiet hues of natural dyes lately. I love the charcoal grays, rust br...
We’ve Come So Far
Hi Friends! I’ve never done an end-of-the-year review before, but artist Pam Lowe recently sent me a message about her history as a quilter and her new pa...
Working with Adversity
Hi Friends, I was working in the studio last week under suboptimal conditions. The weather was hot and it was super low humidity, which can affect my paintings ...
Becoming Alive
Greetings Friends, I’ve been hearing this message a lot lately: “Do what makes you feel alive” and “The world is waiting for people who ...
Serendipity
Hi Friends, I was at Lowe’s last week, and they had a nice selection of mistint paints available. I chose twelve of them, and as I put them into my cart, ...
Fun and Silliness
Greetings Friends! About a year ago I sanded down eight reject paintings so I could paint over them and reuse the canvases. But then something unexpected happen...