Roses and a "Nor' easter"
It's truly a little miracle to go out to the garden on a stormy day in late October and find two sweet roses blooming. The winds were at...
A Good Way to "Charge your Batteries"
Last week I had the opportunity to spend several hours at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Most of those hours were spent in the...
New Paintings from Plein Air Studies
There was a time when plein air studies were considered just that - studies to be used as material for larger studio paintings. Nowadays,...
An Art Video is Coming!
I'm very excited to tell you about a new art video that was done in my studio this week that shows me painting an early morning...
"ZOOM" to Australia!
No, I'm not going to Australia, as much as I would like to! Just wanted to tell you about the really great communication between Graeme...
Hot August Nights Tour
The date is set! Graeme Stevenson and his camera expert, Sophia, from his art film company, "Put Colour in Your Life" in Australia will...
Using Notan Studies for Composing Painting
Since my two weeks in Cuba I have been thinking of all of the paintings ideas that I've been holding on to, waiting until I had time to...
Illustrating a children's poem
Yesterday I had an Open Studio to introduce the children's book that I illustrated, and to exhibit the paintings. It was really nice for...
The Difference Light Makes!
During the course of planning a class lesson on designing light spaces in a painting, I decided to set up a still life with a grouping of...
Art Appropriation?
I've always loved the art that was inspired by Japan. By the 1860s, several well known European and American artists were avid collectors...
