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I swear by the adage: “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”

Over the years rendering the patterns/tessellations has become far easier. The composition remains the most time-intensive part of my...

I use primarily 3 brands of soft pastel: Rembrandt are semi-soft and I use them for something like 75% of the painting.I have the...

This afternoon we went out for a late Lunch/early Dinner. I picked up some pencils and pastels. Now I’m working on my current painting...

This morning was drab, gray, rainy, and blah! The wife and I lit some candles and listened to some mellow jazz:

Got a little more done on this painting:

I really wanted together some Tuscan Red pencils but Dick Blick was sold out. I picked up a slew of pencils that were close in color to...

Was reading "the elegant Universe" earlier and hit on this chapter about the "symphony of the Universe"... I do like poetry as much as...

I gravitate towards realistic styles when I go to art galleries, and I lean towards realism in my own art. If I'm honest... I don't...

Of course I’m being a smart-ass; I spent several years working as an abstract collage artist;

Steely Dan can be found and link to from YouTube: Steely Dan: Do I Again

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there were three terms in art school that were intended as insults: “narrative”, “illustrative”, and “decorative”. The Modernist...