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So this is how I did it… To get the accuracy in the pier sketch below, the correct perspective and spacing and such, I used my projector as a light box and traced the photo. Is this cheating? Kind of. But it is also a contemporary tilt ... 

I sometimes cheat by just tacking canvas to a large board. This way I can stretch and prime the ground of paintings but I don’t have to nail my self down to a particular size. It then doesn’t matter if the image strays off into its own tang... 

Blue Picnic Oil on Canvas 30x24 2011 There are paintings drifting in my thoughts; snaps of thoughts and memories. They are breaths and wisps of colors and forms. If I let my mind not my brushes do the painting, if I over plan the final work ... 

I know that it is not throwing paint at a canvas but if William Leavitt's exhibition Theater Objects at is anything to go by that's okay, it can still be art. 3507 Marathon Street This Sunday, June 5 2-5pm it is our first open house, ... 

Artists should make a commodity that can be prized when they make Art, not seek something for themselves in making it. Well… What should the direction of Art be? I guess my question is, should Art be for the viewer or the artist. If I were ... 

So really the culmination of my last week of looking and making is best said with images than words. It is a visual debate: on the one side representing figures by interpretation and drawing; on the other side analog or photographic representation. B... 

I heard two pops; I looked across the street at what I thought were kids playing with firecrackers. They were jumping around like the ground was on fire. Just then, as I watched, three more cracks in quick succession. One boy, who can’t have be... 

So I have to admit, it is hard. Before, I wrote about going into the studio with my little baby and continuing my practice as usual. The truth is that it is not that easy. For each hour I spend making art, there is two spent burping, feeding, roc... 

Sorry, I have been counting. The hard financial reality is that I have to make money. so now that the business of making money and selling houses is out of the way, I am free to ponder Fine Art again. It is nice to have these things in their... 

He is looking over at me, giving me the eye, flirting with a cheeky grin. Speaking the only language that he as learned so far. Tongue out, arms out reached, light grunting; my baby says "food". As I have found particularly evident from using so m... 

Image inverted I had my first day back in the studio yesterday after having a baby. Armed with the little wriggling, giggling babe, a bunch of blank prepared canvases, and a plan for paintings that I had drawn up a month before, I stepped gin... 

I have not written for three weeks because I have been having a baby. It was not the easiest of births; passion and fear rather than a Disney arrival. I did get to experience all the different types of births that one can have. I got an ep... 

She had really long legs, looked a bit like a turkey, with a very small comb and a tentative step in her gait. I had driven out to Riverside County to pick her up. A nice but strange little man with a deep tan, an old dodge power wagon in his... 

I like painting commissions. Sure, it's of a dog. Not exactly high art, but finished thing will be loved. I am released from the constant art school critique in the back of my mind. I can settle down and play in a clearly defined pen. The p... 

I am often asked to provide a photo of me. A head shot like the one you can see of me with a friendly goat above. Ideally I would have one of me in the studio, brush in hand, canvas at the ready, the flair of creative genius zinging wildly in my unke... 

Bravo’s New Reality Show About Artists Bravo TV has a new reality TV show Works Of Art http://www.bravotv.com/work-of-art/season-1; it is like Top Chef for artists. It airs in the US tonight. A few months ago, I did a pilot for a show like it... 

I had paint on my nose and frustration in my hair from several unsuccessful self-portrait attempts. But the brush in my hand was a whip of determination snaking around me. I was going to make something in the studio that day work. I looked at The... 

I don’t want to paint big pink heads, when I started painting portraits; I looked for what I love about other people’s portraits. Clair Alexander is a London based portrait painter whom I really love, http://www.clairealexander.com/pages/gal... 

Navel gazing is a very important part of being pregnant. First, like a probe on a turkey, my bellybutton is threatening to pop out as soon as I am ‘done’. Each day it expands a little farther. To my great delight, I was able recently to see the bott... 

It all started with a great day in the studio. I knew exactly where I was going. The paintings came clearly and directly. I had a clear goal. I knew my destination and had a good map on how to get there. I had a plan; concept, sketches, canvases and ... 

The canvas that I am currently working on is much toothier than I am used to. The texture of the surface is coarse; it is like painting on sandpaper. Which I like. Which I wanted. The paintings are of the shoppers in big superstores like Wal-Mart ... 

So I went to the studio and made a start. I am not satisfied just yet, but it is a good start. I find half the work of painting is done in my head; thinking about color combinations, gesture, and the back fat to bottom ratio. All of which I was worki... 

Plein air sans brush All I could hear was the crunch of my boots on the parched cracked dust, crystallized into place by a pattering of rain earlier that month. There was what passed for a river up ahead eking a trickle out of the sand, snaking ...