I think I finally cracked up… In the last few months, I began experimenting with texture. I tried a number of commercial crackle pastes in the process, and was disappointed in the results. So I started experimenting with other materials and got some interesting effects. I posted the photos above and below on social media, […]
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Forest Bathing, Memory and Lingering in the Liminal
With the changing of the seasons, I’m beginning to focus on the ephemeral. I love this time of year. The heat goes away and I get to enjoy things outside for more than a couple hours in the early morning. But I’m exhausted, burned out. The art has been draining and exhilarating. Life has just […]
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Digging Deeper
For the last few weeks I’ve been going down a rabbit hole. Unsatisfied with the work I have been doing, I wanted to do more. Reading the latest books from artists/writers Brain Rutenberg (A Little Long Time) and John Seed (Disrupted Realism), I have been thinking about what art is, where the best of it […]
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Transformation
It seems I’m surrounded by symbols of transformation, in dreams and at my front door. I found a dead female Promethea Silk Moth on my front doorstep last year. I kept it because it was beautiful. I knew at some point the time would come to paint it. This week, that time came. The name […]
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Seriously!!
There is a road that runs through cattle pastures, not too far from here. I would park the car and walk the length of it passing all kinds of cows, most of which I couldn’t confidently identify, except for the longhorns. They were largely reserved and watched me at a distance, but a few would […]
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Déjà Vu
Déjà vu? In 2004, I did a dimensional mixed media piece called “Forest Alchemy”. I submitted it and was accepted as a guest artist at a new gallery for a local studio tour. It was my first art sale to a perfect stranger and I was so excited. I did a handful of these mixed […]
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