I’ve started work on the chair.  To start with, I’ve done a graphite sketch because I wanted to see how to draw the strong sunlight coming in through the window.  The back is a little wonky, but it gives the idea.   Part of the problem is that I really can’t see, from the photo…

As I was doing the last piece, “Tree Top Paradise”, I got to thinking about the other part of the experience of looking at the tree.  I started to think of the chair I was sitting in, as a peaceful paradise.  Surely, everyone knows what it’s like to have a favorite, welcoming chair.  It occurred…

A while back, I answered an ad on Craigslist for people to design watches featuring Barak Obama.  It was a competition, and three winners would get their watches made and sold, and they’d collect royalties.   I thought I’d give it a try.  I didn’t win, but I was a runner-up, and my prize was to…

Often, intended as a compliment, people will say of an artwork that it looks just like a photograph.  There is a type of artwork called Photorealism that strives to make a painting look like a photograph, but most realistic work is not like that.  A good painting may have photos used as references, but the…

As I’ve started to do these projects, I realize paradise can mean a lot of things to different people.   I’m sure for sports fans, a football stadium can be a paradise.  I’m not going to do a stadium, but I am going to be more open minded about what a paradise is.  Actually, I tried…

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I would like to begin doing live artwork at parties and events.  I would be doing looser drawings, with oil sticks….still having representational elements, but more abstraction.  The problem is, I’ve never done this before….so I am looking for opportunities to do this for travel and material expenses.  It’s good for rock concerts, and fundraisers…

I see changes I want to make to Tree Top Paradise.  While I was doing that, I started thinking of other depictions of paradise in art history. The strangest has to be “The Garden of Earthly Delights”, by Bosch.  You can spend a long time just looking at the various figures.  It reminds me of…