My Painting Blog

Showing Up and Doing the Work

My Simple Rule for Being an Artist  The past couple weeks I have been interviewed by college students about what it means to be an artist and more importantly, how to be a working artist.  Trying to be realistic about this question, the simplest and most honest answer I could give them…(continue reading)

New Year / New Work

Working Larger The past couple months have been spent painting larger pieces for a March show at the Mahler Gallery in Raleigh.  As someone who has grown accustomed to painting small pieces, this is quite a transition.  While the mediums and materials are the same (oil/watercolor on paper)...(continue reading)

Practice and Finding Juice

 I worked for 4 months on my show at the museum and afterwards I was spent.  Being focused on one thing for that amount of time and then "poof" it's done does take a toll. This isn't new and I knew that I just needed to rest and not think about next projects/shows.  So I decided to...(continue reading)

Painted Archives Show

 This past April I opened a show at Raleigh's City Museum called Painted Archives.  The museum allowed me to search their database of hundreds of historical photographs, ranging from the turn of the century to the 1960's.  It was a great opportunity to look at the city's history through...(continue reading)

Loosening Up - Thanks to Nathan Oliveira

 "They are images that I can interact with, a visual dialog between myself and the figure..."                         -Nathan Oliveira on what he is trying to say with the figures in his paintings.  The past two weeks I have...(continue reading)