I had fun making this piece, challenging myself to lean a bit to the abstract, with slightly wonky proportions. I aim to continue to do a series of still life pieces. I started, as one must, with building a background. … Continued
I have a whole rush of workshops coming up in the Hutchinson area and I am really looking forward to them! First up, on Jan. 30 from 1 to 4pm at the Hutchinson Art Center is Stamp Carving. This is … Continued
Last weekend I taught one of my favorite techniques, reverse painting, at Tessera Fine Art Gallery in Wichita . Making the background is loads of fun, but painting in where the images aren’t can be confusing and tricky! … Continued
I have plans on creating a series of abstract still life pieces. I keep doing some as a “warm up” or to figure out how I want to go about them. I suspect my series will end up being a … Continued
One of my goals for 2016 is to continue working on faces, in fact, I am going to try to do at least 365 faces! I gifted myself with this nifty little leather journal full of handmade paper to inspire … Continued
The words of John Irving are really speaking to me this month! I have more speaking engagements and photo shoots this month than I have had in the last five years! And those are all things far out of … Continued
If you are among the large portion of the population that insists you can’t draw, I thought you might enjoy this video featuring Graham Shaw. Yes you can draw! Here are my attempts at following along with his sketches. … Continued
Little “Forest Fox” is my first fox, something I have been wanting to do for some time. He sits by a reverse painted tree (the tree is the original background, painted around) among fronds that are one of my new … Continued
“A Number in the Crowd” is chock full of my new stencil designs! First, I created a lovely background using Citra Solv and National Geographic magazine papers… Then I did all kinds of fun stenciling with my new stencil designs… … Continued
