It’s been a crazy month, full of more good things than I could hope for. The Bemis show was terrific, with a gallery owner and an artwalk coordinator expressing interest in having me show. I got reviewed. And I just booked a show after a business owner saw the work I submitted to the Ballard Artwalk artist’s Flickr group and contacted me. I’m now going...
Learn MoreI just read my previous to-do list, and wow, was I thinking small. I’ve just been/am still going through a weird mind-expanding phase, something I sought and am a little overwhelmed by. I got accepted into a bigger show than I realized I’d applied for. I have a long stretch of wall space at the Bemis Building – I thought I’d have one or maybe two...
Learn MoreI have the best glass painting palette in the world. It’s an old, very thick piece of bulletproof glass from the teller’s window of an old bank in Boston – I got it for free when I was working at a restaurant that was in the old bank. It’s got a green cast and a lot of scratches and splotches of paint that won’t scrape up at this point....
Learn MoreWhile I’ve been working on my “Monet” assignment, I’ve been asking myself a lot of questions. Do I care about fame? For years I have said “no”, I do not. I have no illusions about the longevity of my work when my life is over. People love things in part because they love the stories behind them, and that is very true with art. When the...
Learn MoreI’ve been stuck for a few weeks, which has not felt good. I went back to the first post in a series of articles on overcoming artist’s block and took my own advice; I started copying a painter I like, in this case Claude Monet. I wouldn’t have picked him when I was painting, but he seemed perfect for what I need to learn next, plus it was a good...
Learn MoreI decided to take a little break from photography and think for a while. Just a year or so ago, that would not have been hard. And I couldn’t do it. I’ve been feeling a fair amount of angst about my work and its direction (or lack of it). It’s such a cliché, but real nonetheless. Hence the intended pause; I have some things I want to work out, but I...
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