These are some thumbnail images I created with watercolor and ink to help sort out my thinking for the start of a new series of paintings. I’m playing around with possible composition ideas here. It’s a Spring theme, with lots of blossoming fruit trees and...
“What location inspired this landscape?” is a question I’m often asked. When I try to explain that there’s no specific place involved and my paintings just sort of come oozing out of my head, I get some odd looks. I need a better way to explain...
I spent the first weekend of this month, August 2019, in the basement of the NUMU Art Museum in Los Gatos, California. No, I wasn’t locked away in some sort of artists’ purgatory suffering a horrible punishment for my artistic crimes. I was attending the...
What do a bar of soap and Mark Rothko, famous American artist [1903-1970], have in common? Together, they inspired my series of oceanscape abstract paintings. The soap – a simple bar with two layers of color, a sandy tan and an aqua blue, sitting in a palm tree...
Joanne Weir is responsible for this painting – indirectly. I happened upon an episode of Joanne Weir’s Cooking Class on PBS just as she was concocting a big pitcher of sangria. It was a hot summer day, so it was probably a re-run playing, but it was the...
