Latest Sunday BLOOM
Why Artists Quit Too Soon and How to Make Sure You Don’t
The artist’s journey is harder than anyone tells you. It’s a rollercoaster of highs and lows, breakthroughs and setbacks, and most people quit right in the middle of a dip,…
Featured Sunday BLOOMS
Late Bloomers
A recent article, passed along by a friend, written by Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point), illuminates this idea that some artists are fiercely direct and quick with their art. No experimentation, no search- just an incandescent manifestation of work–Picasso. On the other hand, there are those, the “late bloomers” (me…
Red White and Blue
I am staring at this painting on the bottom and I can’t figure what is bugging me about it for the longest time and then I realize it’s the colors. I hate when a painting starts going red white and blue. I don’t know what it is about those colors–I even like our flag…
Surface and Time
This is a detail from a painting I just finished. Sometimes parts of paintings are better than other parts. This kind of density of surface is what I am after. Shapes and forms disappearing and emerging simultaneously. Similar to life…memories fading and new experiences arriving, never perfectly clear, always changing and often just out of reach.
