Talking about the show

Becca and I will be doing an artist talk about Subjective at the Corvallis Arts Center this Thursday at noon!

Change

I thought I understood change when I did a series of “before” and “after” portraits in 2006 and 2007, but, recently, I’ve discovered just how little I knew.

Subjectively Corvallis

The show opened in at the Arts Center in Corvallis yesterday!

Richard Brilliant wrote about my work…

...and I didn’t even have to die first.

The expert versus the model

We live in an “expert culture,” surrounded by artist coaches who have to tell us what to do because they can’t show us how to do it. 

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.

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