You don’t need to ask the deaf if this is true. In my hometown just north of Pittsburgh a lot of people came from the Old Country. We had a lot of Irish, Italian, Polish, Syrian, actually in a few blocks we had most of the United Nations represented. But as a child, I learned [...]
There is an unusual show at the Gallery on High this month, flowers so colorful you can almost smell the fragrance. Kay Majka paints a lot of different subjects but her love for flowers really comes through in each of her paintings. I have known Kay and her husband for more than a few years. [...]
Green has a history of meaning. Green is growing. As I look out my window this morning my grass is turning from a light shade of brown to a rich green. The tree buds are coming out and they are a light green. So many people over the years have identified green as a color [...]
No, it’s nothing new to me. I’ve been here in varying degrees many times before. I have seen some of my friends run into the same situation. In some extreme cases it is referred to as burn-out. I’m not sure this is an accurate definition. It gives the connotation that one was once on fire [...]
You don’t have to have a lot of money to start painting. In fact, it is less expensive than when I was a child. These are the basics of what you need. A set of brushes (the best buy is synthetic hair brushes that usually go under the name of Golden or White Talon). A [...]
Many people want to learn how to draw faces and the human form. Many drawing courses cover the basics, so many eyes across the width of a face, heads are divided by centerlines, ears and noses are in proportion. The figure is measured in heads high and the list of generalities goes on and on. [...]
I don’t usually show a painting in its very beginning stage except two important things happened with me this past week and I would like to share them with you. I talked to a very close cousin just yesterday and she told me that her elderly mother had all but given up trying to stay [...]
A few years back I found that an artist’s interpretation of a painting is just one of many even though they created the painting with their own significance of what it was to present. Their interpretation is by no means the last word on what people personally actually see or feel about a painting. This [...]
