by [email protected] | Jun 30, 2023 | Art Instruction, Motivational, World View
I got this question from a student. It’s one I get in one form or another quite a lot. So I hope my answer inspires you to dare to paint badly: “Thanks for the class today. I am struggling with my paint strokes. Not sure if it is because of my brushes or...
by [email protected] | Jun 14, 2023 | Art Instruction, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, World View
A Circus Barker: See the video on FB. Heres’s the transcript: Folks, ya simply won’t believe how you’ve managed to live without picture lights. The light reflected by an original oil painting into a room is at least 375 times richer and warmer than any...
by [email protected] | Mar 22, 2023 | CSA Advocacy, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Random Favorites, World View
This is a very difficult subject and I’m probably out of my league discussing, because I’m a member of white middle class by birth. But maybe, that is what makes me the most qualified. I have lived the entitlements heaped upon my demographic. Yes, I have...
by [email protected] | Mar 13, 2023 | Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Random Favorites, Theatre Related, World View
For those of you who are aware of the depths of my admiration for a man whom my son and I may or may not have met last Saturday . . . I have a recurring dream where Shatner is a main character and we are just hanging out like brothers. His Captain Kirk has not only...
by [email protected] | Mar 13, 2023 | Art Instruction, CSA Advocacy, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Theatre Related, Uncategorized, World View
William Shatner in Space by Robert Maniscalco Consider the young and the old Shatner, both, who, in the understatement of any century, I deeply admire. But I don’t go to Star Trek conventions because I am not a joiner. That’s because of my emulation, often to a...
by [email protected] | Feb 22, 2023 | Motivational, World View
Remember Affirmative Action? Every generation has their name for the effort to create true equality. And as always, there are many who will cry “no fair.” That’s just “reverse discrimination,” another buzzword from the recent past. Its...
