Reflections on Creativity and Life

Monthly Archives: February 2011

Boldness

simple
A bold line in a painting is a confident line! It is not a well-thought-out, calculated line. It is not schooled and hammered in. It is boldness that you can feel. To get a bold line you have to give

The underpainting

layers
I do paintings in layers. Without my layers there isn’t much there. What are the layers.  Not just a bunch of paint I smushed on there for effect. They are paintings that for one reason or another were not worthy

Yesterday and Tomorrow

bridge
Everything you did yesterday makes today what it is. and everything you do today makes tomorrow what it is. True or false? false You can turn at any point and go an entirely different direction. No matter what happens today

Piece of my heart

LOVE
The thing that is sort of hard is selling a painting that has not been around very long. Once I just finished a painting and the gallery owner came to my house and took and and sold it practically the

the next thing

rememberme
What happens when you finish the show?  You have to immediately start the next one. So you had a good show.  That lasts for the night of the show. Even while the paint is still wet on the first show,

The day after the show

priceless2
Well the show went perfectly, the crowds were good and the people that I got to talk to were engaging. I especially enjoyed talking to a writer who had just purchased one of my works. I just felt like I

the day of the show

roses
I will tell you what an artist wants on the day of the show. We are not marketing paintings, we are marketing ourselves. It is very much opening night at a show when you have to stand by your work