Making a Statement

Whenever I visit a professional artist’s website, the first thing I do — even before looking through the portfolio of…

Everyday Art

Before I began this art journey — back in 2015 — I really had no idea what it meant to…

World Watercolor Month has now come to an end. I did not complete a watercolor each day. I didn’t even…

Remember Cheeky? The mischievous “monkey mind” part of my brain that loves mixing things up, putting odd ideas together, and…

I’ve been doing quite a bit of drawing recently, and I’ve come to a beautiful realization. I love to draw.…

I think painting is probably easy for some gifted artists. Through the art clubs I belong to, I know quite…

My first attempts at learning watercolor came in 2016, soon after I started this blog. I’d been pursuing my interest…

I’m a curious sort, and as I sat down to write this post I couldn’t help but wonder, is there…

Art can be crazy, and the art world — you know, all those stuffy, know-it-all judges and critics who tell us what’s…

I’ve shared this story before, but here goes again. It was back in June, 2015, about two weeks after I’d…

“Creativity means making a mess… and then cleaning it up.” I don’t know where or when I first heard those…

I showed this painting before in its “nearly-finished” state. Since then, it’s been sitting on my drying shelf waiting for…

Over the last week or so, I’ve joked quite a bit about breaking up with Aubrey Phillips — not the…

Let’s be blunt and get it out of the way. Despite my drawing practices, my cows aren’t looking any better,…

Remember that awful Winter Stream watercolor I painted several weeks ago? It was painted and posted here not too long…

Despite all the ups and downs along the way in recent weeks, I’m definitely enjoying my art journey. Not long…

World Watercolor Month is well underway, and hopefully before it’s all over I’ll have a nice collection of paintings to…

I love painting skies. I love painting clouds. But even while I’m loving what I’m doing — which is an…

Don’t you just hate it when someone you know breaks up with their significant other, cries on your shoulder, carries…

For several weeks I’ve been devoting a lot of my studio time toward portraits — mostly in watercolor. I’ve had…