Eccentric Heaven: Painting with Poetic License

Eccentric Heaven: Painting with Poetic License
Last weekend I had the best time creating a piece based on a friend’s new poem.  If you’ve never used a great piece of writing as a springboard for your art, you should try it.  It has you go beyond your usual subject matter, directions, even media, as you allow yourself to be led down a...

Expose Yourself: Seeing Green is Good for the Mind and the Soul

Expose Yourself: Seeing Green is Good for the Mind and the Soul
Yesterday morning, this was the scene outside my studio office window: treetops popping with electric green leafage, the weathered fence enclosing my back yard, the outbuildings beyond belonging to two different neighbors, the sun expertly illuminating the redbud tree so that it almost looks as if its...