Finding line

Andy Goldsworthy)
The essence of drawing is the line exploring space. (Andy Goldsworthy)

Daily Musings

(Gustav Klimt)
I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits. (Gustav Klimt)

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true. (Gustav Klimt)

Faith

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. Van Gogh

Black

I've been 40 years discovering that the Queen of all colours is black.
- Auguste Renoir
Picasso "when in doubt always use black"

empty nest

Color Theory

As it is with people,so it is with colour. We change,correct or reverse our opinions about colours and this opinion may shift back and forth. Joseph Albers

Interested in color theory? Check out the book: Interaction with Color by Albers

Sharing

ruhl-benda 1998
(I did this sketch, scanned it and this is a digital print. One of the first and only digital prints I have done.)

I cannot overstate how much a generous spirit contributes to good luck. Look at the luckiest people around you, the ones you envy, the ones who seem to have destiny falling habitually into their laps. If they're anything like the fortunate people I know, they're prepared, they're always working at their craft, they're alert, they involve their friends in their work, and they tend to make others feel lucky to be around them. (Twyla Tharp)

Find someone to share your artwork or the creative process with today.

Simplicity

By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately. (Paul Klee)

Thinking outside the box

Buckminster Fuller

Love

Robert Indiana
Love is metaphysical gravity. (Buckminster Fuller)

Three generations of artists

age 29, in a letter to his mother, July 26, 1911...
Treasure Island is completed! The entire set of seventeen canvases without one break in my enthusiasm and spirit. Better in every quality than anything I ever did. (N. C. Wyeth)



I surrendered to a world of my imagination, re-enacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. (Andrew Wyeth)


My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations... (Jamie Wyeth)

For Meghan

(Louise Nevelson)

I believe in my work and the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally. Everything must fall by the wayside by comparison. (Louise Nevelson)


I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. (Louise Nevelson)
(Louise Nevelson)

Power of painting

Jasper Johns
I am just trying to find a way to make pictures. (Jasper Johns)
Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that. (Jasper Johns)

Freedom

1978 figure about 50" square


It was without thought that I painted large. I felt I was entitled to. Now, 30 years later it overwhelms me. Innocence allows for so much more freedom.