CAN WE SEE YOU?

by | Jun 19, 2014 | 4 comments

Are you ready to be seen? This seems like a pretty basic question but I am realizing that for many people the answer is not completely a yes. I am speaking of their Art, whatever that may be, but because your Art comes from you, it is actually quite a bit closer to...

THE WATER IS FINE

by | Jun 12, 2014 | 1 comment

Above: Detail from “A Bigger Splash” by David Hockney, 1967 I have had numerous conversations this week with friends about how difficult it is to just simply let go of control. It is always hard to do so in life but especially in Art. Of course this is one...

LIMITING AND TRANSFORMING BELIEFS

by | Jun 5, 2014 | 4 comments

Artists and Careers in Art Limiting Beliefs #1 You will be a starving artist. #2 You will not be successful till you have died, and even then this is unlikely. #3 You are a reclusive, uncommunicative person who generally stays inside. #4 A lifetime of angst is a...

ARRIVING AT THE BEGINNING

by | May 29, 2014 | 8 comments

I am coming to the end of an enormous amount of art making. I have produced about 25 paintings in the last 5 months and soon they will all be picked up from my studio for a month long exhibition at Caldwell Snyder Gallery opening Thursday, June 5th. For months I...

THE MISTAKEN APP

by | May 22, 2014 | 6 comments

This is watercolor is of me standing outside the Art Studio at Westerbeke Ranch in Sonoma, California.  I took a break from teaching the ArtLife workshop to see the beautiful afternoon light hitting the Sonoma hills. My friend Wendy took a photo and then from this...