Process is everything. Arriving at the destination is always so much less than the journey when it comes to creating — for me, anyhow. The thrill is in seeing how things emerge, the spirit that comes through…or in some cases, drops back from the original concept in a piece. There is so much learning. There is so much learning and this is what excites me about painting. It is different every day.
Continue Reading →Magic, the super-natural and giving over of oneself to the alchemy of it all is sometimes the only path an artist can walk. Here are two freaky pieces I’d consider my best work ever that came out of a healthy dose of Stephen King, thunder and lightening.
Pin ItContinue Reading →There are ups and downs in every artist’s studio. This week has had all of that. Here are my epic fails and triumphant wins.
Pin ItContinue Reading →The very interesting thing is that no matter where you are in relationship to the painting, it changes according to the reflection of the light source.
Continue Reading →There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it’s how to handle your chosen medium and how to best reveal the light in a three dimensional form on a two dimensional surface.
Continue Reading →I’ve been working today on “The Artist’s Daughter” for the third session of the work. It’s coming along nicely, but not there yet! See for yourself…
Continue Reading →How a canoe is traditionally built reflects the form human so perfectly as well. There is a bone structure to it — a rigidity but yet flexible structure that underpins the function and provides form. The skin — a canvas in many cases for the older canoes or actual skins of trees or animals with earlier indigenous canoes, the vessel itself becomes this humanistic art form for me.
Pin ItContinue Reading →Here is the progressive work on Day 3 for the oil on linen panel work by Janice Tanton — “The Artist’s Daughter”.
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