WAITING FOR ANSWERS

Today I was working on a large painting. It was mostly white and had tiny black square shapes all over it. It reminded me of a snowy landscape. I was feeling kind of lost, almost as if I was wandering in this enormous white field with black stumps where trees once...

THE VACATION IN ART

I love the quote by the philosopher, poet David Whyte…”Visitation, absence, visitation, absence this is how we learn”  This totally rings true for me. When I come back to work on a painting the following day I have about 45 minutes of objectivity....

WORLD DOMINATION SUMMIT

I just returned from Chris Guillenbaum’s World Domination Summit in Portland Oregon. The conference was especially remarkable because of this year’s speakers. I especially was moved by Nancy Duarte visually mapping out the worlds greatest...

ORIGINALITY

When I was a in high school I took a stained glass class at a local art store. The first project was to make a Tiffany style lampshade. The pattern was basically a pansy repeating floral motif. The instructions said that I could choose any color of glass I wanted. ...

RED WHITE AND BLUE. AGAIN.

It is July fourth and it just makes me think of red white and blue. This color combination is one of the only ones I don’t particularly like. I don’t exactly know why. I think it’s because this color combination is no longer available to mean anything...