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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…
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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 to think about art. But something found me anyway. What I saw sitting on the bank of that river taught…
3 Seconds to save her creative life.
Have you ever walked into a room full of artists and immediately felt like the worst one there? Like everyone else got the memo and somehow you missed it? In this post I share a story from one of my early workshops at Esalen on the Big Sur coast, a…
I was a controller in the studio…
For years I controlled every mark I made in my paintings. My hand. My intention. Every decision accounted for. Then I picked up a trowel and everything changed. In this post I share what a trowel does that a brush never can, what I learned from painter Gerhard Richter about…
