Blog great love

The novelist Willa Cather once wrote, where there is great love there are always miracles.

Schiele Man 18x19 charcoal on paper

I was going through my art books and I was reminded of Egon Schiele, so I threw this together, near the end of the drawing , I noticed the hands seemed to be in an impossible position. Schiele was one the more unique artist to have lived, so the hands in this charcoal can stay.

Restless Blog

As I lie in bed I know its time for sleep but my mind keeps crawling...back through the day, the week, the life. So it looks like this will be another restless night. I'm getting up, that painting needs more color, the etching plate needs the edges polished, maybe a quick look online for some frames. Then I will sleep...perhaps.

Eiffel Tower 6x8 oil on panel

From my journey to Paris...my 5th painting on the subject since my return.SOLD

Blog Bengali song

Whatever appears to leave us.
Actually doesn't leave.
Whatever appears to stay with us
Actually does not stay
Nothing remains
Everything is a mystery
of constant gain and loss

Notes from my kind

As fast as we perceive a paintings value we feel its color. It might be a neutral grey or it may be a cool blue and perhaps a warm overall red. Color can set a mood.

Posedown 10x22 pastel on paper

Four students posing at different times but I put painted them on the
same paper ,I enjoyed doing this task today. At times I paint because
its a nuisance not to.

Notes from my kind

We can make a pattern of highlights on our paintings to help to create movement. The eye moves with the pattern from small to big or big to small depending on a value change or change in color temperature. A strong painting always has movement.

Lady 8x11 in. pastel

When I was 17 (a long time ago) I painted this portrait, I believe
my perceived success of this picture was a turning point for me.
From then on I wanted to become a serious artist. NFS

Blog,The artist and the patron

With the advent of the Internet, artists have a greater access to the patron. Patrons have the ability to choose from a wide variety of styles and prices along with their varying degrees of tastes and needs. They now process a quick ability to browse through art work from all over the world. The history of this relationship (artist and patron) has changed. In the Renaissance, the artist was often told what to paint. Later, in the 18th century, there was a system ruled by the fee driven gallery. Today the artist has the art show, the gallery, the open studio, the group show and even the co-op. None of these (even combined) can reach the number of possible patrons as does the Internet. The Internet has, without a doubt , innovated the industry.

Old man charcoal 18x22

A quick sketch..loose and economic line.

Pot of Day Lilies 8x 7 oil on board

Started a large painting today, I'm always excited and maybe a little hopeful when I work on something experimental as will be the new large painting...nothing experimental in this little still life.

Mother and Child charcoal 20x20 in.

Sometimes its hard to decide if a work is finished, this charcoal
seemed just fine and now as I'm loading it to my blog, I can see a
couple of needed corrections ...that's a good task for tomorrow.

On being an artist

As far back as I can remember, I wanted to be an artist. The books I read for book reports were biographies and I spent endless hours thumbing through art magazines studying the reproductions. In college I majored in Printmaking and I liked the Sciences. To me the artist and scientist have something in common; they both are seeking the truth. Art needs to say something to someone to be of value. It's a way of connecting...having the artwork speak to people. We all are attracted to certain works of art for different reasons, sometimes it's the subject matter or the style, the brushwork, the lighting or the maybe it's the colors ...and then there is the art we love. Great paintings exist and have spoken to millions of people for a long, long time. As an artist, I have found that if I paint the truth, I will connect to the ones who will know it.