“No amount of shading, color, or detail will ever offset poor structure or poor cropping” … Me. So here you are, about to draw a portrait, and with your reference photo and pencil in hand you find yourself starring at the photo that’s loaded with colors, values, lines and shades. Next, you look at your […]
ABOUT ONE MILLION LITTLE MIRACLES! Did you ever have a sore toe? At first you think, “No big deal, it’s just a pinky toe” Soon you notice your whole body reacts as you begin limping around. If you limp long enough, your other leg or back will react and probably begin hurting as well. Ever […]
DERWENT WATERCOLOR PENCILS …SIMPLY AWESOME ! For some reason I tend to compare the cost of most every purchase to the cost of a tool. If my wife, Sandy, talks me into a new set of curtains and a bed spread, I may be smiling and saying,”yes of course”, but I am really thinking ,”Yikes! […]
I recently posted a meme that read “my teacher thought I was smarter than I was, so I was.” I am not very competitive, by nature. Growing up, I was the tallest kid in the entire grade school, and really never had to prove myself on the playground. In sports, I was always pretty good […]
PASTELS I love pastels as a medium. Pastels produce rich, saturated, and often painterly results – so buttery that you risk getting color on the tip of your nose as you peer in close and wonder, “What medium is this?” Pastels can also produce dry, sketchy, monochrome drawings, such as sepia tone DaVinci style, most […]
I had been searching for an easy, clean and inexpensive way to do wire sculpture. I first tried brazing. This is the state of the art technique requiring a torch and acetylene and oxygen tanks. I bought a small outfit and played around with it for a while and realized that besides150 burns on my […]
LEO Often Pharaohs, Kings and mighty men of war depicted their victories in bas-relief friezes. Because Lions are such regal predators their images were often associated with royalty in victorious battle or royal hunting scenes. In creating this large bas-relief I imagined the joy of unearthing this ancient artifact, though greatly damaged, still having this […]
Above are some of my bas-relief sculptures – each sculpture is only about 2 inches thick. I can imagine that most two dimensional artists from amateur to professional would probably never think of grabbing a hammer and chisel and start beating the snot out of a piece of sandstone or marble. Nor would they dream […]
For many hundreds of years people all over the world have been using a cooking vessel that since 1710 we call a Dutch Oven. It is simply a cast iron pot with a tightly fitting lid . With this versatile cooking utensil a cook can bake, boil, stew, fry or roast. Now imagine how much […]
“He’s off doing his art thing” or, ” she is out there watercoloring somewhere “, “workin’ in the studio” or even, ” he/she’s got art deadlines to meet” . Whatever “it” is it’s what we do … What we must do and what we want to do … Because we are artists ! When I […]