Making a living is like making a painting

I like to think of marketing as a creative act, much like making a painting.  Reframing it in this way has helped me to embrace the business side of art.

Portraiture’s formal tradition

Painted portraiture has a reputation for being stuffy and formal.  While this unfortunate characterization has some truth to it, it’s important to see it in the context of the genre’s history.

On painting kid faces

Children are tricky subjects for a myriad of reasons.

On blogging and being a better artist

Today is the second birthday of my blog, and, in the last two years, my forum has done me more good than I could have imagined. 

Butterfly

A meditation on distance, difference, and my grandmother.

The artist’s self-esteem

Balancing self-criticism and self-belief is a challenge every artist faces.

Why portraiture is different

Portraiture is unlike any other genre, and its special qualities come with responsibilities as well as surprising consequences.

Heading south after the North View

Subjective closes tomorrow after a month at the North View, but the show is far from over…

Getting it right

Sometimes, I start a painting one way and it finishes very differently.  But that’s in the nature of things where painting is concerned.  It’s part of the eternal quest for an undefinable “done-ness.”

 

The opposite of “a painting a day”

My work takes time.  Far from a painting a day, I like to develop my paintings over the course of a year, ensuring that there’s at least as much time as there is paint in the layers that I put down on canvas.

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