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I went to Santa Fe to see great art (It almost made me quit.)

When I first started making art I drove to Santa Fe to see what I thought would be the best art in the country. Gallery after gallery on Canyon Road….

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What I asked AI at midnight…

A few weeks ago I drove a thousand miles into Baja Mexico alone. Late at night, deep in the desert with no cell signal, I asked AI one simple question on impulse. A question that every person has an answer to. Especially artists. And it couldn’t answer it. What I…

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My Artist Friend Admitted This

Have you ever lain awake in the middle of the night wondering if you’re really qualified to call yourself an artist? You’re not alone. In this post I share a conversation I had recently with a group of advanced artists, where one of them asked something so vulnerable it stopped…

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The Secret Trick to Matching and Mixing Colors

Color matching is one of the most frustrating parts of painting. You see the color you want, you try to mix it, and somehow you end up further away than when you started. In this post I share the VHS method, a three-step approach to matching any color faster and…

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