So sometime last summer James Day recommended Hugo Medina’s Phoenix Festival of the Arts mural project to me. You know how it is. Awash in the lazy days of summer I said yes, and December was so far away. LOL. So as the date of the Phoenix Festival of the Arts crept up I got [...] Read more »
Child of the Sea Care Bear for Red Brunch
Sounds like the title of a rock ballad. Its not though. The Red Brunch is a charity event organized by Aunt Rita’s benefiting various AIDs related charities on World AIDs Day, December 1, 2012. To buy tickets etc got to RedBrunch.org. About a week ago, Nancy Hill of Gallery Hazel in DoPho contact me and [...] Read more »
Don’t paint it black
I am often asked about my framing options-I don’t offer a whole heck of a lot-I usually frame with a white or off-white mat in a narrow black corporate style frame. If the work doesn’t need a mat I usually frame with a simple wooden frame having no fancy fillets, coves or bevels. People ask [...] Read more »
Keeping it Loose, the Golden Light
I am generally paint things tight. Every brush stroke and color has a predetermined place to land. I don’t usually paint outside the lines. I have been working on becoming more painterly, more expressionist. One stretch in this direction is painting abstractions, but the other is just painting a little looser. My latest foray into [...] Read more »
The Scorpion & The Frog
One of my favorite fables is the one of the Scorpion and the Frog. It basically says some will be true to their nature no matter how they are treated or what the consequences are. Variations of the story swap a youth, man, kangaroo or turtle in place of the frog, and/or a snake in [...] Read more »