Art Instruction Blog

Acting Methods

Some of you may not realize I am an actor.   My experience and training is eclectic. My technique borrows from Stanislavski, Adler, Meisner, Strassberg and a myriad of others who's names you probably don't know.  I even studied with Mark Lenard (Sarak from Star Trek)!...

Words and the Right Brain

Whatever you put in is what will come out, recycled as something else. For instance, I wonder about using music with lyrics as a "background" for painting.  Personally, I use instrumental music.  If I hear lyrics it activates my left brain, which tends to think of...

Ambition and Bliss

What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lauded works of our favorite composers today?  Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the changes of time, and, more’s the pity, the fashions of time, only that which is good and true, will endure like a...

Talent Shmalent

You will have to play a long time yet before you realize that you can not play at all. Ludwig Van Beethoven People, students, often ask me to tell them if they have talent, as if to suggest they should not want to waste their time, devoting themselves to something...

My students make me proud!

Don't forget I offer an ongoing Drawing/Painting class every Wednesday, 10am - 12:30 pm to get those creative juices flowing. Join us in our spiritual quest on the banks of the Ashley River.  It's always a great time to jump in and open yourself up to your creative...

Calling All Art Spirits

Article written by Robert Maniscalco and reprinted in Pointer News around 1998 Detroit, MI, — Many people have said to me over the years, “I envy you. I can’t even draw a straight line.” It breaks my heart to hear that many people have grown into adulthood convinced...

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