Recently I finished a painting that I had been working on for many, many months. Conventional wisdom has it that there is nothing so frightening to an artist as a blank canvas but in my experience, the reverse is true: Completing a project is much more...
Nearly a year ago, when I stood on Captiva Island at the water’s edge & looked out across the Gulf, the view was pleasant enough albeit, as beach stories go, rather banal. Yet when I turned & began strolling along the water, the view suddenly became a visual...
“The greatest meeting of land & water in the world” is how watercolorist Francis McComas described Point Lobos, the California State Natural Reserve located at the north end of Big Sur, but in reality, his passionate pronouncement could just as well be applied to...
In February Tom & I spent a week on Captiva Island, just off the southwest coast of Florida. Each morning at daybreak, after a quick cup of coffee, we pulled on shorts, t-shirts & flip-flops, grabbed our windbreakers, shelling implements (Tom) &...
Recently I’ve been watching some of my favorite movies again, or I should say, “listening” to them, for I find it very soothing to engage my auditory sense while standing in front of the easel, toiling away on a painting. Usually I listen to various lecture...
