I spent the first weekend of this month, August 2019, in the basement of the NUMU Art Museum in Los Gatos, California. No, I wasn’t locked away in some sort of artists’ purgatory suffering a horrible punishment for my artistic crimes. I was attending the...
I’ve been thinking a lot about transformation. I’ve made so many big and small shifts and about-faces in my life that you might think I know something about transformation, but I’m not so sure. I’ve made a lot of mistakes and wasted a lot of...
I first learned to paint as a kid, when there was no Internet – no YouTube to show me what to do. We lived in a small town and I didn’t have any art books to reference. I pretty much figured stuff out on my own. I really wanted to do things right. I was a...
I’ve been tweaking one of the minimalism paintings from the class last weekend and am liking it quite a bit more than before. I suppose it’s a little less minimal, though, since I’ve added magenta, orange and turquoise, but I think that gave it a lot...
Today I spent four hours hurriedly slapping paint onto two canvases in an abstract minimalism class. The conditions weren’t ideal, as the class was packed with students, and so the instructor’s attention was spread pretty thin. This was very much out of my...
