Poem: Why do I remember this?
Why do I remember? I've carried this, and now--see?--here it is. Guided by a compulsion (that has never left me) I painted the walls of my mother's house the entire length of the hallway; floating…
Category: Bio
Cold beauty of frozen Lake Erie
The long shadows from the afternoon sun transforms Lake Erie into an otherworldly landscape. During the winter the sun is in the southwestern sky. In the summer it moves over the lake; by June it…
Winter 2014
For us winter really starts when Lake Erie freezes. The snow-covered expanse beyond my backyard is the lake. Yesterday, believe it or not, there was no snow or ice out there. This all happened overnight.…
In the studio 1/1/2014
What better way to start the new year than in the studio, eh? I was up at 5:00 as usual (no late night revelry for me!) and pitched right in. 'Main Street #2' is part…
A Merry Christmas
I hope you and yours had the best Christmas and Santa brought you everything you wanted! Children at home always makes Christmas memorable.
Robert Blackburn
During my weekly visit to the Cleveland Museum of Art I was pleasantly surprised to see a newly-hung lithograph titled Blackburn. In the lithograph by Ron Adams (an artist heretofore unknown to me) I instantly…
Small oil sketch
This recently finished sketch is on a canvas board that was prepared as I described in an earlier post. I deviated from my normal medium with the addition of a small amount of stand oil.…