Playing with art by making studies and using many materials and various styles to paint the same thing, is one way artists develop skill.

For the past few months, I've been involved with our local art association. This is a new adventure for me!

I'm a notably bad cook, baker, and dinner-maker. And my sense of taste when it comes to food is not particularly fine. On most days, I...

How meeting other artists in real life improves my art.

Yes, real artists do quit. But they also restart. My last blog post was about exploring new avenues of creating. I wanted to know what...

Art history connects us to a thread of other artists who bothered with beauty when it did not appear relevant or easy.

Hand is the trace left by the artist that lets you know it was crafted by a human.

The straight-forward, no-nonsense appearance of white backgrounds is really appealing to me now. No, I'm not just being lazy! Keeping the...

It's officially a series! I'm finishing the third painting in a series of traditional botanical paintings based on Shakespeare's Romeo...

A few weeks ago, I was on a long drive home from visiting my daughter who is away at college. Listening to audio books and podcasts helps...

Last February, I visited a botanical garden during an unseasonably warm afternoon. It was an overcast day. The clouds created moody...

Have you ever noticed the different sizes of museum paintings? Maybe, if you're like me, when you leave a museum, you think about all of...

How reading and climate change lead to a new painting series.

Is beauty radical, life-changing or even important? Maybe not, but here's my view.

We are what we read! Books influence artists in many ways.