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We Climbed in the Dark to See Dawn’s Colors

A pre-dawn climb up Mount Whitney with my daughter Hannah became an unexpected lesson in color and in why sharing an art journey isn’t a task separate from life. It’s…

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Finding the Value of your Art

There is this really cool shop in Portland that I accidentally wandered into last week. At first blush it just looks like a metal junk shop but peering in the window as I went past, I realized that this just wasn’t any old junk shop. This shop was only selling…

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A New Beginning

Happy New Year everyone! I wanted to start 2017 off by talking a little bit about how I sign my work. Do you sign your work, and if so, how?

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Why it Pays to be Bold, Early

Beginning a painting of any kind of artistic expression is always hard. It is like that blank page when nothing has been written yet. The emptiness can be intimidating. It scares me sometimes. Personally, I would prefer to begin with something that has already been started. Everyone has a way…

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