How paintings work — and how to see them.
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Not Knowing What You’re Doing
How six paintings developed from one another during a residency at the Vermont Studio Center.
I want to tell you a bit about the thinking process that develops when you make a group of related works. Now, when art schools or galleries talk...
The Freedom to Drift
During my vacation on Canada’s East coast, I found a lobster trap rope on the beach. It was badly entangled and half buried in the sand. I started to unravel it and soon discovered it was quite long and wickedly knotted, so I brought it to...
The Landscape is not the Painting
How transformative vision changes the way we paint from observation
After doing the first beach painting, I walked further along the coast and discovered this snaking river. I was immediately interested in it as a painting subject because...
The Art of Care
Jacobus Agnesius - Saint Sebastian, ivory 1638
Here is an article I wrote more than a year ago that I think is still interesting. I am currently doing an artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center. I’ll tell you about it in the fall.
I...
The tension inside the frame
This week, I want to bring you into a drawing that exemplifies the power of effective visual language and how, you too, can use it to tell a story that has a distinct feeling.
I want you to always try to connect with an art image before kn...
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