"Paintings With Personality"

6 Ways to Begin Intuitive Painting

As an Intuitive artist, you have let go of control and perfectionism. Focus on what is happening inside yourself and let it out. Leave the safety of your comfort zone and face the unknown, enjoy true freedom. [...]


Intuitive Painting and Big Fish

This is titled "Cheerleaders". It is on 22x30 inch, 140 pound Arches watercolor paper. I painted it after seeing a carnival parade in St Thomas. The warmth, the sun, the music and dancing were all instrumental in creating this work. Honey went fishing the other day, his first time out this season. He caught a BIG trout, it was 4.7 pounds and 22 inches long. Think of a newborn baby and you will get an idea of the size. I couldn’t cook the fish that night and was going to dinner with friends the next night, so I suggested he cook the [...]


Lost and Found Edges and Lost Art Supplies

I really like to draw, and have been doing a lot of it lately. I call this man I saw writing in Central Park "Making Notes." I especially like drawing people who have lived life and earned the privilege of sitting in the park and enjoying the day. They have earned every wrinkle and every white hair they have. “I can’t find anything!” It seems a lot of items I thought I really needed walked away when I moved to my new studio. They went the way of lost socks and other sundry items.  I was finally getting used to my new [...]


Do All Fine Art Paintings Need A Focal Point?

  This is the restaurant where Vincent Van Gogh took his meals when he lived in Auvers sur Oise, France. His bedroom is just upstairs. After he shot himself, he was taken up to his bed and sometime later, died in his bed. A few years ago Honey and I visited Jackson Pollock’s house and studio near East Hampton, Long Island. It’s a great place to visit and interesting to see the cans of paint and brushes Pollock actually used, not to mention the paint all over the studio floor that you know he spilled while working. When I have seen Pollock’s work [...]