How Do You Know It's Finished?
How does an artist know when a painting is finished?
Posted 08/29/2024
Brush Care for the Meticulous Artist Painter
Brush Care for the Meticulous Artist Painter
Posted 06/21/2024
Unleash Your Art Energy Through the Healing Powers of Recreation
Recreation, a health necessity
Posted 06/14/2024
Join Me For An Oregon Coast Painters Retreat and Workshop
This four day gathering is both a plein air painting and art-journal workshop on the Oregon coast. Painters and non-artists welcome!
Posted 03/01/2024
Vancouver Wine and Jazz Festival
Art booth at the Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival, August 25-27
Posted 08/12/2023
Painting Workshop-Retreat on the Oregon Coast, May 2023
Four day retreat and gouache painting workshop on the Oregon coast.
Posted 04/25/2023
How can we explore color’s amazing power for expressing emotions in art?
How we can use color for expression
Posted 04/11/2023
If you use paint, you love color. You use color. But how and why?
On color in painting.
Posted 03/30/2023
What can we say about a painting?
On the essential elements of painting, and how we can talk about them.
Posted 03/15/2023
A Handbook for Gouache Paints
My new eBook is out! It's a guidebook for gouache paints, where and what to buy and how to use them.
Posted 03/05/2023
Why Paint From Nature?
When the weather constrains my plein air painting, I head indoors. By early spring, I'm longing to be back out in nature.
Posted 01/11/2023
Oregon Coast, Plein Air Painting, Sept 29 - Oct 2, 2022
This mid-section of the Oregon Coast has wonderful access to tidepools, coastal forest hikes, beachcombing, and much more. Your room is steps away from the famous 804 Trail, with wonderful step-out areas and views for setting up an easel.
Posted 07/01/2022
Oregon Coast, Plein Air Painting, May 2023
Come paint your heart out in May 2023. This mid-section of the Oregon Coast has wonderful access to tidepools, coastal forest hikes, beachcombing, and much more. Your room is steps away from the famous 804 Trail, with wonderful step-out areas and views for setting up an easel.
Posted 07/01/2022
Stepping Back
We learn to step back in our art practice as a tool of habit, to gain a different view.
Posted 06/21/2022
Conversations Within, "The Women Artists of Monhegan Island"
This 2007 film documentary by Michael Boucher continues to ask "where are the women?" in the history of painting, the history of art.
Posted 06/13/2022
Plein Air Painting - Lower Crooked River caldera, Oregon, June 2023
Over 50 million years of geology surrounds us where the Lower Crooked River canyon winds through rimrock, extraordinary lava formations and river meadows.
Posted 06/01/2022
Painting with Gouache - Plein Air Workshops
Painting with Gouache - Plein Air Workshops on the Oregon Coast, and in the Lower Crooked River Canyon
Posted 04/04/2022
Conversations with Gouache
Substances and capacities of gouache paint in the field and in the studio
Posted 03/08/2022
Traveling to France
Can I travel to France safely now, and what do I need to know?
Posted 02/22/2022
Conversations with Gouache - 02
Substances and capacities of gouache paint in the field and in the studio
Posted 02/08/2022
Choosing Your Gouache Palette
Choosing a range of paint colors for your gouache palette, in the studio and in the field
Posted 02/09/2021
Get The Most Out Of Your Gouache Paint with Good Brushes
Substances and capacities of gouache paint in the field and in the studio
Posted 11/30/2020
What Is Landscape?
I’ve been thinking about the word ‘landscape’, because so much of my work gets thrown into the landscape bucket. We’ve expanded the language ...
Posted 05/01/2018
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