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I See Blue
Watch a short film about the color blue: I've noticed some artists tend to favor a certain color. Taking a very wide view, I've even noticed certain cities tend to shy away from certain colors or favor others. It seemed every artist in New Orleans started with a...
Freedom from Identity
I've been living a double life for sometime, painting what moves, touches and inspires me, while dutifully holding on to the moniker of being a professional artist. Today, I am giving up the identity of being a professional artist. Ironically, it is also the day I'm...
Still Lives Matter
I hope you'll pardon this tasteless, though possibly clever, pun as the title to this blog. I've created a lot of still lives over the years but I've always had an odd relationship to the genre. I believe if I am going to ask someone to stare at a painting of mine it...
Under a Bushel
I've always believed God has a way of bringing certain talents to light. Experience tells me that everyone has gifts, areas of exceptional insight, something many people refer to as "talent." Some know their purpose from an early age. My sister always wanted to be a...
Inside the Artist’s Studio
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Artfields 2016
I am very excited to have been selected as an exhibiting artist for Artfields 2016, with my painting of Louise Noel, part of The Quench Project. This competition is open to southern artists and is modeled after Artprize, held annually in Grand Rapids, MI. There are...
Paint it Forward
In the spirit of the "Pay it Forward" campaign made popular a few years back, "Paint it Forward" is a challenge to other artists to use their unique skill, vision and power to create work that addresses the important issues of our time. Art with a social conscience is...
Why We’re Here
A letter to fellow creatives I get that I'm just a regular fella; nothing I do entitles me to any more favor than anyone else. God loves me the same as he loves everyone. His love is unconditional and absolute. I also get that we live in a society that celebrates the...
Quench Project Budget and Charitable Model
The Quench Project Budget and the Arts Infused Charitable Model One aspect of my mission as an artist is that my art be sold. I do not subscribe to the Starving Artist paradigm. Art is not only my spiritual calling, it is my livelihood. I'm in the business of self...
Time to Get Organized – Interview with Heather Power
If only I were organized, maybe, just maybe . . . anonymous artist Are you confused, perhaps a little overwhelmed in your studio? Heather Power is here to help. We talked the other day about all kinds of things related to getting organized, something many artists...
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Exhausted but exhilarated having made a couple paintings during the first ever Charleston Plein Air competition at Mary Martin Gallery. The St Phillips painting was sold on the spot at the gallery as I was turning them in today to this nice couple. Talk about fresh art?! The Pineapple Fountain with City Gallery behind, is a view we don't often see. ...
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"Last Tango in Wonderland" is another collaboration with Nick C. Cerrato in which I painted what was behind his abstract expressionistic painting, which happened to be We the People of the world, being danced upon by the Epstein class. ...
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted.Day one of the MMG plein air festival in Charleston. A pretty ambitious painting of St Philip. ...
"Evil's Place," another collaboration with my dear friend and great artist, Nick C. Cerrato. ...
"Tempus Fugit" captures the instant fire and ice meet, when strange entities are released into the human psyche. Another collaboration between myself and artist Nick C. Cerrato. ...