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Drawing and Painting for Everyone

by netGALAXY Studios | Jul 15, 2018 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Random Favorites

At the end of a very fun four week drawing and painting class in my North Charleston studio I am so impressed with these first efforts in portraiture. I keep training my competition, sharing the best kept secrets. Why? Because I believe the joy of artistic expression...

Waking Up is Hard to Do

by netGALAXY Studios | Jun 24, 2018 | Motivational, Random Favorites, World View

Trump is performing exactly as expected. His presidency is turning the status quo on its head, chipping away at democracy, discrediting, dismantling and undermining the institutions we’ve built up and have come to take for granted for so long. We are moving from a...

Aggressive Art Marketing

by netGALAXY Studios | Apr 16, 2018 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Random Favorites, World View

I love being an artist. It is a privilege. In recent years, however, it has also become a luxury. In fact it has become a vanity. It used to be that vanity galleries, founded by the super rich as tax shelters, were the rare. Nowadays, vanity galleries and coops seem...

Alton Davis Portrait at Michigan Supreme Court

by netGALAXY Studios | Oct 24, 2017 | Portraiture, Random Favorites

Excited to present this #oilportrait to Justice and Ms Alton Davis for the #MichiganSupremeCourt. The official presentation of the #portrait before the full court will be sometime next year, TBA. I wanted to capture some of the brilliance of the man using a more...

Preaching to the Choir

by netGALAXY Studios | Aug 4, 2017 | Art Instruction, CSA Advocacy, Motivational, Random Favorites, Uncategorized, World View

Congratulations! If you’re reading this, that means you’re a member of the choir. We are the choir But are we just going to stand there and sing pretty? We are not sheep! What are we willing to DO to bring about real change in the world we are sharing?...

Drawing Through Tears

by netGALAXY Studios | Jan 6, 2017 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Random Favorites, Uncategorized, World View

Tragically, most people are more interested in what Roof is going to say or do. “how is he reacting?” But the real stories are those of the survivors. So today, my focus is really on the amazing people, over 8 witnesses thus far, who are survivors, family...

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