I’ve been writing my art articles for almost eight years now but lately my computer and Internet connection have been ganging up on me. This is the third week that my Internet provider hasn’t been providing very well. The week before last, I sent in my article three times before the paper received it. Last [...]
Sky and water have a lot of different personalities and are constantly changing. The light from the sky above tints and reflects on everything we see during the daytime hours. At the Madison County Senior Center, we will begin a series of painting demonstrations at this Friday’s painting class starting at 9 a.m. on the [...]
Wednesday, a week ago, the evening sky was such a bright yet deep red that my camera could only catch a part of its true colors. I stood in awe looking out the window of my front door. I haven’t seen a red sky like that in many years. I can’t really find the words [...]
Around the 19th of December, I saw a visual in my head for a painting, one that was similar to a painting I had completed around 50 years ago. As my thoughts kept turning, I remembered that I had a custom frame stored that was made for me but a mistake had been made in [...]
Right now, there is a big push on trying to hold back the aging process. In a way we are trying to deny it as if we could control it. The truth of it is, we can’t. Yes, we can delay, in some cases, the effect of aging, but ultimately it is there and in [...]
What is real and what is not, sometimes it’s hard to tell. In our fast-speed digital world, one of the objectives is to make illusions seem real. The more real the impression, the more money it may generate. This we can see in our movies and our games that we purchase. Billions of dollars are [...]
We recognize most people by their faces, yet, faces can tell us so much more than just who a person is. Faces often can tell a story about what is going on inside of a person. The eyes have often been called the windows to the soul. Not so much by what is seen from [...]
Do you want to know how a person really feels about themselves at any particular moment? Just look at the way they sit. It can tell you a lot about that person’s feelings and attitudes. Often I will do gesture drawings. So what is a gesture drawing? Simply, it is capturing the person through doing [...]
