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Fold in the Light
This is from an art lesson yesterday in class. Want to express folds in drapery or in skin? You must understand how forms behave in the light. Here is a fold depicted in light, side view and top view. There is a hard cast shadow on the left side. And there is a soft...
Aspire to Happiness
This life therefore is not righteousness but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing not being but becoming, not rest, exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it. The process is not yet finished but it is going on. This is not...
Trouble with Trifles
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oESvmg0W_dc[/youtube] Captain James T. Kierkegaard to the Rescue What is a disagreement but a trifle? What makes a healthy debate over ideas into a conflict, an essential disagreement? Without preliminary understanding there...
Golf Portrait
Look dad, I did it! As my very first friend once told me, "Rob, there are two kinds of people: boaters and golfers." Well here are a couple golfers. This was a particularly meaningful portrait for me, as it expresses a father's love for his son. I enjoy a bit of...
The God Factor
Most theologies would support that God is more about how things are connected than in how the are separate. Drawing is a celebration of the connections between forms. Therefore, these connections might be thought 0f as a celebration of God; the more connections,...
Beauty
As I approach the first anniversary of y marriage to Cate (June 1), I am re-sharing the poem I wrote soon after we reconnected. In that moment, I realized I'd found the love of my life. I pray for all who long for love to know it's waiting for you too, if you are...
Psalm
PSALM Opening my eyes to the God I see in you, I see myself being seen in loving praise of all that is. Now, dear other, cry for the children without the words to plea, the savvy to endure, the tenacity to wait, unprotected by the healthy boundaries those of us,...
Dear Bully, Yeah You (Me)
Dear Bully, yeah you (me), I can see you don't go around pushing people, insulting them, sticking their hair in inkwells, that sort of thing. But you do single people out. You find something you don't like about them. You may not even know exactly what it is, but...
Drawing for Smart People
Here's some advice for all you really smart people who want to be able to draw what you see: Dumb it down a bit. Great painters have more in common with magicians than with detectives. See less, rather than more. Don't show off your sexy curves. Curves are where...
Reviews Are In for 33 Variations
Here's a lovely, thoughtful review of the show, this by wonderful art spirit that is Olivia Pool of ART MAG. We are so lucky here in Charleston, to have the support of our media as our many artists throw themselves into their passions. The review also has a great...
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