My favorite scene in Mr. Turner, the 2014 biopic about the English artist, occurs during the run-up to a Royal Academy exhibition: Turner appears to have deliberately ruined one of his dark & dramatic seascapes by pressing a brush loaded with shiny red...
In our backyard, the clematis has wended its way to the upper reaches of lamppost, trellis, arbor & tuteur. Hummingbirds & bumble bees are working over the lavender spikes of catmint. The local bunny has been nibbling the last of the...
When I first started art school – exactly 21 years ago this month! – I remember telling my instructor, “I just want to learn how to draw.” (In fact, since childhood, I had “just” wanted to learn how to draw.) Now that the opportunity to do so was...
