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What a dragonfly taught me about art
I just got back from three days in the wilderness with my daughter, no phone, no notebook, no paintings, following a river up into the Trinity Alps. I didn’t go…
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These art tools help me the most
I get many questions about my favorite tools, and it’s been a few years since I last shared them with you, so today, I thought I would share a couple. All of them help me create an essential contrast in my art. It is a contrast, or “difference,” in my…
Are you juggling too much?
Do you sometimes feel you have too many ideas? Does it seem crazy to be entertaining one more thing with everything you already have on your plate? How do you deal with the overwhelm of all those creative ideas and plans you have? People accuse me of taking on WAY…
I was avoiding this.
Pulling off a small painting is hard. However, it can feel especially daunting to make a painting bigger than yourself. After I moved a raw 8ft x 8ft canvas into my studio, this is how I felt. I was unsure and reluctant to begin. There is just so much white…
