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The Real Issue Behind the Mass Shootings

by [email protected] | May 28, 2022 | Motivational, World View

What is Really Behind all the Mass Shootings? Some people say it’s a mental health issue. Others say it’s a gun issue. What it is, is a political health issue. America is experiencing political psychosis. There’s an insanity, a deep illness, an acute political...

Headmaster Chad Lawrence

by [email protected] | May 18, 2022 | Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, World View

The Portrait Presentation was a Hit I’m very excited to present my portrait of Headmaster Chad Lawrence who is retiring from Holy Trinity Christian school in Beaufort, SC this year. The portrait was a senior gift to the school and will hang in the lobby of the...

The Dynamics of Sharing Our Creativity

by [email protected] | May 9, 2022 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Random Favorites, Theatre Related, World View

Blinders On When I ran the Maniscalco Gallery in Grosse Pointe, I remember more than once, artists coming through the door, head down, arms full of art, mumbling something like, “I don’t want to look at anyone else’s art. That’s how I know that what I’m doing is...

Palm Sunday Conversation About Dreams

by [email protected] | Apr 10, 2022 | Art Instruction, CSA Advocacy, Fine Art, Motivational, World View

Welcome to Psalm Punday! Today, we live in a world of guns and violins. Personally, I don’t condone violins. I’m rather partial to violas. Seriously, thanks for having me here at the All Souls Waccamaw Unitarian Universalist Church. We tried this once before. And then...

Portrait of Juan Wu Li

by [email protected] | Mar 22, 2022 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, World View

I have gotten to be very particular about taking posthumous portrait commissions. They pose some singular challenges to any portrait artist. My goal is to capture life, or at least to create portraits that have the feeling of being painted from life. This can be very...

LOVE

by [email protected] | Feb 14, 2022 | Motivational, World View

This Valentines I’d like to take a moment to admire those who take seriously the idea of love, integrating love into our daily lives. Love is a verb. Love is pure potential. Love is the life force that makes all things possible. Love is more action than feeling or...

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