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As a teenager driving home from downtown St. Louis I let the web of the city’s lights free my imagination. So many stories lived behind so many lights. So much electricity spread modernity through the night. The experience was memorable … Continued
As a landscape painter I feel colors and textures rotate through the seasons. My own appetite for silver, blue and lavender spikes as winter approaches. My desire for pink and green jumps with the approach of spring. Tracking the seasons … Continued
The Renaissance art historian Bernard Berenson claimed that Lorenzo Lotto’s “St. Nicholas in his Glory” contained his favorite Renaissance landscape (example 1). It occupies only about a quarter of the painting. I found it where Berenson remembers it, in a … Continued
The dazzling spectacle of translucent water revealing two different palettes within the same visual field always seduces my eye. The palette below the water is more subdued, often occluded by surface motion, shadows, reflections and floating material. The palette of … Continued
NPR recently reported on studies in creativity as presented in recent TED talks. One interesting discovery was that artists (musicians, painters etc) can fall into comfortable repeated patterns relying on unchallenged skills for success. But, by challenging those patterns and … Continued
AS Da Vinci recommended with painting “ Let go of your expectations” both scientific method and the joys of discovery require us to let go of what we want to happen when making a painting and see what is unfolding … Continued