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I write here about life as an artist, living in the Mohave desert.
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Power Corrupts
There’s a lot of things that I know to be true, that I don’t believe.
Married to the Muse
All my favorite memories happened in the fringes of “regular life”
When I first moved to the desert, two of my sons shared a 1972 travel trailer with me. In it we slept like sardines for 3 years, while building our home. One wall, next to the broken stove, was for "Post-It Note" drawings. With this one, I was thinking of my beautiful...
What lies beneath.
You’re more than you know.
Can’t wait to make that submarine!
Printmaking Pleasures
IMG_5357
Colorful Barb!
Painting Life
(Don’t) keep it simple.
Eye Candy
Glassman
Do birds judge their own singing?
It's so natural and freeing to wildly express. . Watch children at play - (humans have an added gift) - we're creators, we love to invent - it's our glory! But as they say: "with every gift comes a curse". And as an artist, I run into it every day - On the one hand...
One of those stories…
I received a call, way back, to commission a painting based on "The Woman Caught in Adultery" - one of those stories that made Jesus famous. Mmm… I told him I was interested, but couldn't take any money up front - I couldn't say...
Sometimes art can save your life.
That is, if you listen. At nineteen years old, my girlfriend was cheating on me. I chose not to believe the signs, but in my gut, things just didn't add up. I was working in glass at the time, and ran across a photo of an aboriginal petroglyph. This drawing from...
It just takes time…
I’ll often spend weeks just drawing…
I'll often spend weeks just drawing, developing ideas for paintings. I get to a place where I don't want to stop - just skip the paint and draw forever! But the painting does begin. And then I follow the same path, now enveloped in color, one idea leading to another,...
We were just talking about life,
we made a quick list of things we never expected to happen, (that did!), Death, marriage, moves - the good and the bad. Its shocking how little we know!
Worry comes out in the paint.
Two of my sons are fighting huge forest fires all Summer. It's bound to leak into the art.