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)
Posted in Miscellaneous on January 25th, 2012.
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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)
Posted in Miscellaneous on January 23rd, 2012.
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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)
Posted in Miscellaneous on June 22nd, 2011.
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This week I completed 4 small paintings. In the months prior to this week blues and greens dominated my work. But these 4 are all very much red, a color that tends to be my comfort color, namely cadmium reds. Red is a complex color, and means different things to different people. For…(continue reading)
Posted in Miscellaneous on May 15th, 2011.
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