Drawing life

Recently, I spent a few weeks visiting with my grandmother in the retirement home in France where she lives now.  On the third day of visiting, I started to draw her on a whim while my mother painted her mother’s nails.

Cleaning the family grave and other Breton adventures

Home from Brittany now and glad to be here even though I miss the sights, smells, tastes, and friendships of France when I’m not there.

How to make art on commission

Doing commission work can be a nightmare for an artist, but it doesn’t have to be.  I’ve made my living as a painter for six years now, supporting myself primarily with commission work.  Over the years, I’ve discovered a few ways to keep a commission relationship from going bad.

Surprise painting

Very rarely, a work will finish itself without my noticing it.  Though I wouldn’t want that to happen all the time, it is a delight when it does!

Résumé raiding

The best artist coach I know of is other artists’ résumés.  By looking at the CVs of artists who are more established than I am (including the one in this exhibition catalog), I find clues about new opportunities to pursue.

The starving artist and the sell-out

As artists, we live with two stereotypes, both extreme and both extremely damaging to our profession.

Free culture

The art world has lots to learn from the forced renivention of the music industry, and watching the documentary RiP: A Remix Manifesto is a delightful way to study some of those lessons.

Pecha Kucha Night in Eugene!

Pecha Kucha (pronounced in 3 syllables “pe-chak-cha”) is a presentation format in which a presenter shows 20 images for 20 seconds each for a total presentation time of 6 minutes and 40 seconds.

Painting takes time.

Painting is a process of applying paint and then responding to it, and sometimes it takes many months of doing absolutely nothing to the painting in order to get it right.

Branding yourself as an artist

Though it’s often thought of as a term more suited to the business world, “branding” is essential for an artist.  It helps for marketing work and also for making it.

Suzanne Opton: Soldier + Citizen

Portraits are vertical.  They’re so vertical that we even named the vertical option for printing a page “portrait” (to distinguish it from the “landscape” orientation).  Portraits are vertical because people tend to be vertical.

I ♥ Sweet Station!

Ginou Choueiri’s Potato Portraits are just some of the wonderful things to be found on Sweet Station…

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