Being an artist is an incredibly rewarding existence. It is a dream I've had since my youngest days, and I'm actually making a go of it. It's an incredible feeling to want to get to work every day. And not only that, but it's hard for me to take days off. I am captain one track. I paint, I think about painting when I'm not painting. I've painted full time for 13 years, and have painted in a loose realist / impressionist style most of that time... with a few fun, psychedelic p

It's been a long hiatus in the blogosphere, as happens with me. I thought I could update my site and blog through the iPad, but alas, that is not yet the case! Hopefully soon, Wix will allow me to do that in their otherwise wonderful site building format! But at least we have the Instagram, which I manage to update pretty regularly. There, you will find a lot of images of what I am up to throughout the week. In May, I began a campaign to force myself to draw every day. I call

I don't blog. Or, I should say, I did for a bit, but I haven't in a long while. With all the other media stuff, why bother? And, I can't type, so it takes too long to do anyway. And I can never stick with it. I'll be good for a few posts and then peter out. Why embarrass myself by even putting anything out there that could be incriminating, or inflammatory, or showing my ignorance, or my flaws? Just stick to the dry facts, and art related and everything will be fine. I've wri