Posts by Nicholas Wilton

Just returned from another Artplane Workshop. I don’t think Jennie and I have ever worked with a group of people who managed to paint so much in 5 days. Every night there was a group who stayed up till 2 am working in the “Art Barn” Painting is usually so solitary. I thoroughly enjoyed working…

I have been so busy lately. Here is how this one went…it got very dark for awhile….. /div> /div> /div>

Tonight I just decided to skip pretty much everything I usually do and try, in one session to go from blank white canvas to something that is graphically strong.  I can’t re paint too much as the under color is wet and it darkens the light. Quickly lay in what a finished painting could look…

Sometimes the very thought of making or writing something can become the barrier. When it becomes like this I just start. Like now. I have no clue what to write, just the growing frustration that I am not. Why this plays out time and time again for me (and I suspect others) always amazes me.…

I have been intermittently working on this painting for about a week….not crazy about this yet. Although when I look at the post from before this seems way better. I usually don’t have an opportunity to look backwards. =”center”a>

Arranging and re arranging shapes in  a square could take up days and days of my time. I try and look at it and see if it can get it any more poignant or more noticeable. How can this be more perfect, more thoughtful, more memorable?–Does this feel how I want it to, even if…