You were too big a boy or girl to have mommy leave a light on. There were no "nightlights" plugged into wall outlets back in those days. You heard a creak outside your bedroom door. Your tiny fingers pulled the blanket closer to your chin. You tried to disappear into the sheets -- to shrink to the size of an apple. You listened, barely breathing. There it was … [Read more...]
A master’s words
"It is an acknowledged fact, that we perceive errors in the works of others more readily than in our own." -- Leonardo da Vinci Is this an accurate statement? For master artists - maybe. How about the rest of us? I don't know about you, but the only thing I see in my work are mistakes. There seems to be no worse critic than ourselves. I suspect that Leonardo's treatise was … [Read more...]
It’s about time!
In 1841 a portrait painter and tinkerer, John Golf Rand, invented the collapsible artist's paint tube. I've read that Renoir said, "Without tubes of paint, there would have been no Impressionism." Really? Like most stuff you read on the Internet, those types of "quotes" remind me of that game of "Gossip" we played as kids. Go ahead, google Renoir's quote and see what pops … [Read more...]
Learn a new language
My mother was a math teacher. She was kind of famous in the county where she taught. Some folks told me she probably taught over half the kids in the county over her lifetime. It seems they either loved her or hated her. There was no in-between with mom. I, myself, didn't do really well in math. At least not like my brother who was a math whiz. He ended up going to MIT and … [Read more...]
A child’s imagination
My daughter-in-law Nicole texted us this morning with a video she secretly recorded of our granddaughter Sloane. Sloane was dancing on the deck behind their new home. I wonder if Philip and Nicole realized they were adding a performance stage to their house. Did they think about ballerinas and stage lights? It didn't take long for Sloane to figure it out, … [Read more...]
Guiding Principles
What if every time you painted you created a masterpiece? Here's how the Old Masters did it for centuries. Time-Tested Principles Don't make up new rules of art. According to rabbinic tradition, Ecclesiastes was written by King Solomon in his old age. Solomon writes, "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the … [Read more...]
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