Watch as I Transform a Painting

Watch as I Transform a Painting

I’ve uploaded a new video to my YouTube channel showing some of the process that I went through creating a new abstract flower field painting. It shows how I took the painting to a more polished, finished state from a rougher, midway state. I create my paintings...
New Paintings Created During Open Studios in May

New Paintings Created During Open Studios in May

As you may already know, in May my art studio was open to the public for Silicon Valley Open Studios on two weekends, May 14-15 and 21-22, 2022. While having my studio open, I worked on two paintings, a different one each weekend. The first weekend, I worked on an...
Starting a New Series of Paintings

Starting a New Series of Paintings

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...
How this workshop influenced my paintings this month

How this workshop influenced my paintings this month

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...
start saying YES

start saying YES

I just finished reading Shonda Rhimes’ book, “Year of Yes”, and WOW. I rarely read celebrity books, in fact, right at this moment I can’t even think of one celebrity book I’ve read. This one I made an exception for, and maybe you should,...