Sometimes the very thought of making or writing something can become the barrier. When it becomes like this I just start. Like now. I have no clue what to write, just the growing frustration that I am not. Why this plays out time and time again for me (and I suspect...

I have been intermittently working on this painting for about a week….not crazy about this yet. Although when I look at the post from before this seems way better. I usually don’t have an opportunity to look backwards. ="center"a>

Arranging and re arranging shapes in  a square could take up days and days of my time. I try and look at it and see if it can get it any more poignant or more noticeable. How can this be more perfect, more thoughtful, more memorable?--Does this feel how I want it to,...

I went off on a bit of a tangent and did these small square 24" x 24" paintings just using minimal color. I tried to work on them all together and imagined them all hanging in one group. I wanted to see how simple I could get them so from across the room they looked...

For Valentines day I bought my daughters small tins of gourmet jellybeans. Hannah left for a week on a school field trip to Quebec and accidentally left it in my studio. This is a temptation too great for any person, especially me already weakened by the prospect of...

This idea of crappy painting in the beginning always reminds me of Anne Lamott, the Bay Area writer who said “I always do a shitty first draft” I think about that a lot when beginning a painting. It’s much easier and in the end, because you don’t care, there sometimes...

In the beginning I just lay down whatever I am thinking about… trying not to judge whatever it is or wether it looks good or not. This painting is at the stage that I don’t really like too much of what is presently there. It feels simplistic, thin and overly...

This is where I ended up. This was an interesting painting for me. The darks had to be really strong as they are not particularly dynamic shapes. I wanted the eye to bounce around and then have the quieter elements softly converse… Two conversations going...

A recent article, passed along by a friend, written by Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point), illuminates this idea that some artists are fiercely direct and quick with their art. No experimentation, no search- just an incandescent manifestation of work–Picasso. On the...

I am staring at this painting on the bottom and I can’t figure what is bugging me about it for the longest time and then I realize it’s the colors. I hate when a painting starts going red white and blue. I don’t know what it is about those colors–I even like our flag...