Odd. A family member has revealed that my antique Lotus sports car named Red Pea is my ‘prized possession’. I protested, but now I’m thinking. What is it that makes people decide what matters to other people? At issue: money spent. Time spent. Degree of care. We draw conclusions from what we think we...
Since many years I’ve had an idea whose execution on canvas still awaits it’s day. One of several. I’ve spent many hours trying to create it. Numerous photo shoots and paintings and sketches later it still eludes me. Last year Kayla suggested we try again and she’d be the model. I was mesmerized by her...
I don’t know exactly when a fish stops being a fingerling, maybe when they are bigger than a finger. A morning visit to a local lake brought joy. Armed with the ‘big camera’ and a little point and shoot I went straight to the lower trail that is close to the waters edge. Morning is...
It was pretty annoying. There were rattles behind the dashboard that came and went. Nuts backed off the carburetor and manifold. The car was vibrating apart. Then I put new tires on and the vibrations abated, but there was still a reckoning to be made for the prior vibrations. One day, as I arrived to...
Windblown hair can dress up a pretty face even more. I needed a break from paint and opted to sketch. First, I used measured restraint and kept this simple idea simple in sketching Larissa. I love the way it’s turned out. Then I used an entirely different approach to sketching Leah. I shamelessly detailed and...
