Surprises at the Cleveland Museum of Art
The first surprise was learning that Tuesday is Senior Day at the museum. This means that the museum was filled with the type of people I try to avoid: Kamala-supporting,…
Charcoal drawing
I’m still on my drawing journey. I haven’t painted in almost a month! This charcoal drawing is on Roma drawing paper. The handmade paper shows the wire lines used by…
Big turpentine
After completing studies for my next BIG painting, I’m ready to start painting. At 5′ x 6′, this is my largest painting in more than a decade. A painting of…
Site outage
The web host I’ve used for over 10 years, TMD Hosting, has been solid; they have good tech support. They updated their infrastructure, and I’m happy with the performance improvement that…
Winter doldrums
This winter has been harsh. The temperature hasn’t been above freezing in many weeks. Lake Erie is 100% frozen for the first time since the ’90’s. It snowed a lot,…
Turpentine diaries 2/4/26 drawing
What have I been up to lately? Drawing. I’ve spent the last three days drawing. The shift from painting started when I began preparing drawings for a large (5′ x…
Looking at my own paintings
My unfinished paintings surround me here in the studio. I never look at them; rather, my eye studies them, and I try to make my eye happy. I hear “It…
Gapka oils: Review
Gapka generously sent me a large assortment of their oils to try. I’ve used their paints daily in order to write a fair review. Gapka is following a clever strategy.…