Pontiac GTO - The Judge. I'm a 30 year old pushing 50 GenX early tech adopter artist with a love for those dinosaur mythological things that are disappearing at the rate of a social media photo filter cycle. What? I grew up watching the Brady Bunch and Hawaii 5-0 and...
Abstract art in the age of chaos. Art for sale. Artist for sale. Abstract artists soul for sale. I've been painting for decades. In the early days of getting serious, my primary focus was figurative painting. In an effort to shake things up while preparing for a show,...
Artists Hide intentional meaning in their art. Connect the dots. Hidden messages in oil paintings. Semi-autobiographical portraits of a moment in time for the artist. Easter eggs. I do it regularly in subtle ways. Recently I submitted a piece to the 29th Annual Juried...
Finances for Artists? File under: Things I wish I knew when I was <insert age> Artists shouldn't talk about money. Screw that. Let's go! Or jump straight to the details.... When I was a kid, I got a job so I could buy comic books. And then another one because I...
I decided to submit my oil painting 'Give This to Jack and Alice' to the Oshawa Art Association's 51st Annual Juried Art Exhibition at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa Ontario.Give This to Jack and Alice. Words scrawled on the back of an old family photo. This...
Random memory perfection. 1977. Drive-in movie theatre. My 4 year old universe prematurely expanded from the back seat of 1967 Plymouth Fury Station Wagon. It was the family car, big as a house, enough real estate with the seats folded down for my older brother and I...
Dear Diary, The Name of The Band is Talking Heads. Occasionally… I have other things in my thoughts, outside of the daily experience. Often, music is a part of those things.. . how it makes me feel, the memories conjured from a few opening notes. I hope that everyone...
Saatchi Art side step. Etsy Art Shop Website I've been spending a lot of time studying and testing SEO for my Etsy Artist Shop in order to help drive traffic to my Art Prints. And, for the record, there is a lot of really great information out there - but in general...
Artist failure is vital. Fear of failure is counterproductive. Does failure bother me? Sure. But I can't be afraid of it happening. Fear can be paralyzing. Fear of a failing painting can be very difficult to deal with and often compounds problems. Every painting I...
Artist Studio practice*. Prior to Contemporary Landscape Painting teaching classes at Station Gallery in Whitby Ontario, I give a lot of thought to my process and why I do some of the things I do. I had started recording the process from start to finish with a few...