One day in 1989, like so many kids of my generation I sat down and attempted to draw Bart Simpson. A friend had given me an 8.5″x11″ xeroxed drawing of his face and I reasoned that it would be simple enough to recreate. I attempted to mimic each line of the image several times unsuccessfully. […]
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”-Pablo Picasso One of my earliest memories involves me feeling bad about my artwork. Although it was three decades ago, I can recall the events and emotions quite vividly. I was in preschool and my teacher asked the class […]
Knowing the “right” thing to do can be the exactly the wrong thing if your goal is to create something new. Despite strong intention to be innovative and experimental the urge to repeat what has worked in the past is often stronger. It is a cruel irony that years, or decades, of study and practice can […]
Too often we make the mistake of believing that we have complete control over the production of art. In truth, art is not something you make, it is something that happens. True art is never a result of intellectual reasoning alone. It is by necessity the result of a contemplative and ephemeral experience. An art […]
It is difficult to finish a picture but even harder to start one well. Beginning a picture with thoughtfulness, intuition and control are skills that require performance training. Performance training is more often linked with music than with the visual arts, however, a large part of art making is really performing. The product of the […]