Why Your Most Powerful Art Can Come From Your Hardest Seasons
When life changes in a big way, art isn’t something to wait on until you feel great. It can be the tool you use to find your way out and…
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The Magic Ingredient I Add to My Acrylic Paint
As a former oil painter, acrylic paint has two frustrating qualities to me, it’s thin and it’s slippery, making it hard to build texture or draw into. A simple studio fix, mixing in fine marble dust, solves both problems at once and opens up the same rich, textured surfaces once…
What Makes a Color Feel Full Spectrum, and Why It’s True of You Too
Color becomes beautiful when every hue shares a little of itself with every other hue on the palette. That same principle applies to a creative life. Becoming full spectrum, by adding in everything you love, is what makes both your art and your life feel truly alive. ______________________________________ …
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 simply life, framed. ______________________________________ We Climbed in the Dark to See Dawn’s Colors One a.m. The alarm went…
