More Bruegel influence

Here is a favorite Bruegel painting, “The Fall of Icarus,” which I used as inspiration for my painting “A Busy M

Snowstorms

More work with the masters. I have always admired the work of Francisco Goya and as I scanned through his famous images, one s

More work with the masters

In trying to sharpen my composition skills I am studying the masters. Here is an example of a classic image and then my rendit

A Gene Kloss series

I have admired the work of Gene Kloss for years. I have also been a fan of the 1930s black and white graphic style of her era.

Permission and persistence

Earlier in the week I posted about the persistence of vision of an idea with regard to planting seeds and making paintings. Ev

Perseverance and long-range planning

When we moved into our house in Lower Ranchitos, I tried a lot of things when it came to gardening and planting. Not a whole l

An exciting new direction

Every once and a while I’ll pick up an art magazine and be really impressed with a painting I might see. Most recently,

Fractals as art

One of the things I’ve been devoting my time to over the last few decades is the pursuit of a medium that can express wh

Copying Taos Masters

I like to study classic Taos founder paintings as a way to understand the signature compositional styles and storytelling fact

The Persistence of Vision

Long before I moved to Taos, New Mexico, I read an impactful science fiction novella by John Varley called Persistence of Visi