What This Blog Is About
This blog is about what it means to be a creative person, particularly as it relates to painting…Learning to paint or dance or make music is less about learning new techniques and more about learning new ways to be free and acutely alive. That is no small task.
UNDER RE-CONSTRUCTION
This blog is under re-construction. We’re putting back 75 blog posts that were published between 2011 and 2021. Please check back later.
Pretend You Are Singing A Painting
Recently I was looking at an internet video of a plein-air type “paint out.” There were dozens upon dozens of participants. What struck me, apart from the fact that everyone seemed to be doing little paintings (probably 12 x 16 inches),...
Kim Frohsin
Wolf Kahn once told me that an artist must always be trying to solve a problem. Other well known artists have said the same thing this way: once you get good at something, stop and push past whatever it is that you do easily and well....
Complete In Any Stage: Go For The Rush, Forget The Gold Star
I recently wrote a short article for About.com entitled “A Painting is Complete in Any Stage.” If you read our March newsletter you would have seen the same image of the painting I discussed. It was a very foggy evening and I wasn’t able...
Anatomy Of A Painting By Bill Schultz
My primary teacher was Bill Schultz. A student of mine once reported back to me that upon calling his wife, Nadya, in order to obtain a DVD, Nadya exclaimed, “Bill taught Jerry everything he knows.” Well, maybe not everything but Nadya is...
On Painting The Sun: Monet’s Choice
If you paint the sun, you are always confronted with a specific choice: you either have to try and establish the correct value relationship by making the sun very light on your canvas or you must go for the color, in which case the value...
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