In the previous articles I pointed out that many different things can inspire a contemporary painting, a frame, color palate, a scene, a photograph, a vision. Sometimes, as in this case, in came from necessity. We had just purchased a summer condo in Tacoma, Washington, and had an 11’ wall that...

We were last considering a diptych, two pieces connected by color, style, and content. In fact I did the companion piece, river, mountain and all. I didn’t like it. As my gallery owner pointed out,” It just doesn’t have depth or hold ones interest.” I agreed and it became a “paint over”. Sandi,...

There are likely as many methods of developing an original painting as there are artists; or maybe as many as there are paintings. I’ll have to think about that as this develops. Let’s start with my most recently completed work, “ A River Runs Through It”. Starting with the end, the piece was...