Monday Morning Art School: why is a workshop important?
Painting what we don’t know is invaluable for developing a keen sense of observation for when we get back to what we do know.
Early Spring on Beech Hill
People who don’t live in the north don’t realize how much color there is in a winter’s day, especially at the tail end of the season.
Critiquing my own painting
Formal critique of your own work allows you to disentangle yourself from your emotions and look at your painting’s strengths and weaknesses objectively
Four most useful types of paint brushes
Losing my brushes last fall made me think long and hard about what I care about for field painting. Here are the four shapes I like the most.
Naughty trickster cinnamon fern
Either these were not bracken ferns but rather cinnamon ferns, or I can’t draw. The latter is simply ridiculous so I’ve renamed the painting.