Abject terror, rigid doubts that would not let go, intense pressure to perform. Fear, almost immobilizing fear. These were my emotions today as I started to paint again after roughly two months of not painting.
The Canyon Series
I’ve known that some new series was germinating in me, across the long months of the winter when I was lying dormant, writing but not painting. I have been “working” on a new series of canyon paintings.
Ten Tips to Become a Better Artist
Ten tips that you can print out and hang somewhere that will help you become a better artist. Do it now! What are you waiting for?
“Even When I’m Not Painting, I’m Painting”
I haven’t been painting. For months and months. I feared I might never paint again, truth be told. But my good friend, Kim, saw me through this crisis by giving me the same advice I would naturally give to any of you: even when I’m not painting, I’m painting.
The Art of Becoming an Abstractionist
Like the painter, Beatrice Mandelman, the famous Taos Modernist, coming to New Mexico dramatically changed my art. Prior to arriving here my career had been spent as a realist painter, primarily figurative and genre work. When I first visited Truchas, I was in something of a transition with my work. I was abstracting the backgrounds […]
Weaving the Threads Together
The physical materials that make up these micaceous pieces include, of course, the wood and canvas of my substrate, the plasters I use to create texture. And then the grasses from this land on which I live… … and the precious mica, this “gift of the earth, gift of those who have the privilege of […]
Next I Look to the Earth
I walk on my land across the earth to the shady reaches of the land grant, banked by its wild arroyo, deep and mysterious, until recently unexplored by me. As I wander out there, alone but for my dogs, my eyes invariably fall from the expanse of sky, the sweep of mountains, to the rock […]
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