When you work on a project, regardless of its nature, it's easy to focus on one small element and forget about the larger picture. This...

This text is hanging above my computer in my studio, just above eye level where I can see it every time I sit down to check email, manage...

This is a post about how to price your artwork. How do I determine the price of my artwork, you ask? Good God Almighty! I do not know!...

How I got started as an artist at a later age than many.

When your contact with the outside world is a basic website, you don't often get feedback on your work. It can feel a bit like...

My work displayed at the Foster Gallery, summer 2021 (Miramar Beach, FL)

If you remember anything about your elementary school years, I bet you remember Crayola crayons. If you were lucky, you got a brand new...

about personal preferences and choosing to paint on paper instead of wood

About creating clean white edges on paintings

The joy of opening a new can of Gamblin cold wax

I don't know if you know this, but you can carry art around with you on your watch all day long. Here's how....

Printing favorite paintings in various forms—cards and prints at lower prices.

I fancy myself a poet. Several years ago, I asked one of my daughters, "How does one become a poet?" And she replied in her succinct way,...

I keep a folder on my desktop for outtakes, photos I have taken by accident because my thumb bumped the "button" on my iPhone.

During painting sessions, I often find I have left-over paint. I have either gotten bored with the color or used as much as I need or...

Filling in the gaps with miniature oil paintings.

I hear tell there are artists who have every available color at their disposal, ready to add to the palette as their imagination wishes....

When you're working in your studio or office or around the house, what is it you hear in the background? What I mean is what do you...

I am one of those people who takes a personality test assuming I'll emerge as a confirmed arty type with a free-flowing thought process...

One of the properties of cold wax added to oil paints that appeals to me is the ability to add texture. There is the mark making, of...