Exploring An American Paradise

2021. My year of EXPLORATION. I love this theme, especially as it applies to art because exploration is a process combining old … More

Let’s Get Real

Art is very much about “finding” ourselves. We have to explore a lot of things, I think, before we can … More

I was saddened to hear of the recent death of Chad Stewart, part of a popular 60’s “British Invasion” duo, … More

When I decided to do my 31-Day Index Card Landscape Project as a way of studying tonalism, I planned the month … More

I enjoyed painting this 3 x 5 landscape, another scene based on a work by Dwight William Tryon. His painting … More

With the Christmas holiday behind us, I hurried down to my art studio on Saturday morning, ready to make a … More

First, no, I’ve never read that book, and you probaably know which one I’m talking about. Now, with that said, let’s … More

Billy Joel’s Just the Way You Are is a favorite — both to listen and to play. Back in the 1980s … More

Over the last few days I’ve been using my hot bubble gum pink gessoed manila dividers for my tonalist landscape … More

Maybe one of the reasons I’m so in love with tonalist art is that almost all of the landscape paintings predominately … More

There is a hauntingly beautiful song from the 1980’s by The Alan Parsons Project. Maybe you remember it, or maybe … More

This little 3 x 5 painting is the 10th in my series of 31 “tonalist-inspired” landscapes. While it was inspired … More

I’ll admit to having always had a bit of a fascination with forgeries. I’ve felt the same way about impersonators, too, and … More

There’s a song from Fiddler on the Roof that speaks of sunrises and sunsets and how swiftly flow the days. … More

When I first met and fell in love — artistically speaking — with tonalist George Inness, it was his painting Home of the … More

Today I’m sharing the seventh painting in my series of 3 x 5 “Index Card” landscapes. It’s part of my … More

When I began my 3 x 5 index card landscape project to study tonalism, I wasn’t really planning on posting every … More

Here is another — Day 4 — of my index card paintings for the month. I’m calling this one “Awareness” … More

I’m loving my 31-day oil-painting project! I definitely have a lot of work to do on bare trees, but this … More

I am loving my December tonalism project. Yep, that little project where I’m taking inspiration from a few favorite artists and … More