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…
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.…
Healing brush
Painting is seeing. Seeing is memetic, as Aristotle rightly said. Memesis means imitating, like Beethoven imitating the joyful sounds of spring, like the poet imitating the emotions engendered while ambling…
Cincinnati fail
When I graduated high school, I didn’t have the moral courage to go to New York, which is what I wanted to do. Instead, a friend and I applied to…
The Good and Bad: My Experience at the Dayton Art Institute
The last time I visited the Dayton Art Institute was an unpleasant experience. I grew up in Dayton and was intimate with its collection. I was disappointed upon discovering that…
New oil paint maker Gapka
The Gapka oil paint maker was unknown to me when they reached out to ask if I would be interested in trying their paints. I am always ready to try…