A Blog About Oil Painting

My push to get ready for the Edmonds Art Fair continues. I'm focusing on smaller works so that I'll have more inventory at an affordable price point. As much as I like to paint on a large scale, big paintings are hard to sell....

A selection from a series of small paintings done over the course of a week....

This blog post is about the what, why and how of writing an artist's statement. I show how a typical artist's statement can be improved by making it shorter and more specific to the artist....

A new feature for the blog: the latest paintings and portraits available to preview as soon as they come off the easel....

As I go through the process of reworking my blog, I jot down my thoughts on art blogs including a list of the things that make for good reading....