Category: Bio
Fall along the lake
Lake Erie keeps the Fall weather mild in NE Ohio. Halloween is often shirtsleeve weather here. New Jersey, where we lived before moving here, is always cold by this time. I remember freezing as I…
Turpentine diaries 7/21/19
The first day painting on a new design is always exiting. True, paintings almost never live up to the vision in my mind's eye, but I start every new painting with the same anticipation. I…
Turpentine diaries 4/28/19
I planned on starting a podcast for a long time and today I finally got around to doing it. In the initial Turpentine diaries podcast, I talk about recovering a painting that failed, materially failed,…
Turpentine diaries 2/24/19
I completed the under painting today for Fork. Fork is 54" 66". Even if you're not familiar with my blog, you can probably see that the painting is still a long way from the finish…
Turpentine diaries 2/3/19
I finished these three paintings today. Yeah, that's a lot for me. But all of them have been 'almost' done for some time. Paintings can represent problems to solve and after I solve them, if…
Turpentine diaries 1/20/2019
NE Ohio was pounded by a winter storm overnight. At noon, we--my wife, daughter, and me--braved the gusting winds and blowing snow to clear the driveway. We had to shovel through snow drifts just to…
Christmas 2018
This was the first Christmas when our children didn't wake at dawn. My youngest, home from his Freshman year at college, didn't get up until lunchtime! So we had a leisurely morning around the stout…