Censored. Me. Really.
I’ll be presenting the nudes that got me closed down this Saturday, from 4 to 6 PM. You’re invited. In 2014, I was part of a duo show at a university gallery in Rochester, NY with my pal Stu Chait. Stu was doing large abstract watercolors; I was showing equally large nudes. The gallery is …
Monday Morning Art School: start with drawing
Before you can paint successfully, you have to learn to draw. I love drawing in church, especially when there are sleepy teenagers. This drawing started with simple analysis of shape. One of the problems with writing about ‘how to do art’ is that you’re speaking to all levels of experience. Today we’re going right to …
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Why show your art?
Even if you have no interest in selling, you should still be showing. More work than they bargained for, by Carol L. Douglas For those painters who want to make sales, exhibitions are a no-brainer. Gone are the days (if they ever existed) when the world would beat a path to your door for a …
Drawing as prayer, play and thought
“Drawing is prayer,” Delacroix famously said. He could have added that it’s play as well. And thinking. The Giaour on Horseback, by Eugène Delacroix, c. 1824–26, by Eugène Delacroix, pen and iron gall ink with wash over graphite, courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art Shelving books this week, I came across a small volume of drawings …
Monday Morning Art School: why not be an artist-in-residence?
Artists’ residencies allow us the chance to live and work outside our usual environments. Victoria Street, oil on canvas, was finished during my 2019 residency at Parrsboro, NS. When I was younger, I avoided artists’ residencies. We had four small kids, and as with most households with children, money was tight. I was already away …
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