Process images: this category includes all posts that show process images, either in photos and in video.

Done!

How do you know when you’ve completed a painting?

Paint your life.

When I discovered PaintYourLife.com, I was horrified, but, try as I might, I haven’t been able to put them out of my head.  I get the feeling that it’s more than their catchy title that has me thinking of them. 

Art should appear effortless.

And that isn’t to say it should be easy to make, only that it shouldn’t show signs of struggle. 

One small step for a portrait…

...and one giant leap for portraiture!

A Native American George Washington

A study in “inhabiting the enemy.”

On causing revolution

Art should be good-looking, but it should do more than decorate…it should invigorate.

Every person is a work of art.

And, if they don’t know it, it’s because they haven’t yet sat for a portrait.

On being part of the transitional generation

There’s a whole lot more going on between first and second generation Americans than simply a change in location recorded on birth certificates. 

To flatter or not to flatter

The portraitist’s ultimate dilemma—or is it? 

Reviving and redefining a tradition

Painted portraiture is dead.  Long live painted portraiture!

Learning to harness a rainbow

Starting out, I had far too many pigments in my palette. I had so many that I couldn’t even imagine a color to mix. I was thinking within the parameters of given options, not creating my own possibilities.   

Liberty wanting you to choose her for your team

I usually include a self-portrait in any conceptual series I am working on, and Apple Pie is no exception.

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