Paul gets the workshop under way with a demo at Carmel River State Beach. I headed down the road April 21 for a plein air workshop with an artist I’ve admired for some time, Paul Kratter. I’ve always been sorry that I missed having him as an instructor […]
I’ll be debuting my new Patreon site! Patreon, based in San Francisco, is rapidly becoming the place to be for both creative people and those who want to support them, see works in progress, learn about how the creator does their work and get a variety of rewards […]
On December 10, 2007 I published the first post on my new blog. Since then, except when I’ve been traveling, and sometimes even then, I’ve posted once a week and, for a year or two, twice a week. In the last few years, however, the way people get […]
I’ll be offering a nice selection of small oil paintings, watercolors and drawings at my Sequoia Park Zoo “Art and Conservation in the Land of Blue Skies” lecture next Wednesday, December 13. Here’s a preview, but all are available right now. Please contact me through my website Contact […]
I’ll be bringing original paintings, drawings, location watercolors and some of my Mongolia journals, too.
We got back last Monday night from our two week vacation on the Big Island of Hawaii. While I wanted to kick back and relax I also wanted to make art, specifically to do at least one sketch a day, and I came pretty close. I took a […]
I entered my first juried competition in 1991, an Artist’s Magazine contest for wildlife/animal art. I got an Honorable Mention for a colored pen and ink drawing of a wild boar I’d photographed somewhere. Woohoo! I was out of art school, but had not started to paint in […]
I had a lot of fun a couple of months ago doing a series of cats in watercolors for a local show of cat art. On the opening night there were kittens available and four were adopted! There were also sales! But I still have some of my […]
Details to come, but I will be having a solo exhibition at the Westhaven Center for the Arts, near Trinidad, California, in November and December. It will be a retrospective to celebrate my 20th year as an oil painter. I’ll be showing work that has been accepted into […]
Last month I signed onto a, shall we say, personal services site for the free 14 day trial period. I don’t want to identify the company or the category since I do not want to harm any innocent parties. Or get sued. I used the site for a […]
