I'm involved in teaching another pastel class at Lux Center for the Arts this weekend.  My good friend and cohort in art, Mavis Penney...

It's been an on again - off again kind of season here. Plans have been made, changed, re-made and changed again. We've been snowed i...

Do you ever get the feeling someone's watching you? I don't mean in the scary sense, like you've got a stalker. I mean it in the...

As you remember, last week was my birthday, which means it's time for another Grateful List. One item for each year. (Yeah, I know, it...

Whew! It’s complete, done, over. Finis! Mavis Penney , Canadian painter-coach-mentor-friend and I set out on March 2nd, 2009 to paint one 5 ...

Pssst. Last week for the Big Birthday Give Away! Leave a comment by 10 pm CST, Sunday August 8th. I'm celebrating my birthday by giving ...

Jim Brandenburg set a challenge for himself in the mid-nineties: take only one photograph each day for ninety days. The so what here is tha...

Day 65 At Last 2009 7 x 5 oil It started with a wedding. Our nephew married his childhood sweetheart this past weekend, and we were delight...

Day 9 Discarded Scissors 5 x 7 oil on gessoed board I've been hacking away at this blog for an hour trying to be clever and witty and w...

If you've been paying any kind of attention, you know that today, Friday May 8th is Day 50 of my 100-days-of-painting journey. I'm ...

For those of you who stayed up late last night to catch my latest missive, my humble apologies. I have been waylayed, attacked and dismantle...

No I'm not talking about the guy who got in trouble last year and ended up in the penitentiary. I'm talking about winning a piece ...

Yesterday was as perfect a day as one can get on this planet. The sky was achingly blue, the kind of blue that is so pure and rich and compl...

Did you hear it? It happened last week. I had a feeling it would happen, but when it actually occurred, I was stopped in my tracks. Are you ...

This is Day 26 of Mavis Penney's and my "Off The Highway" project. Mavis and I are cruising into our sixth week of daily pain...

What a great weekend! I enjoyed instructing a great class of artists on Saturday at the Minden Opera House . Those folks accomplished a grea...

This Thursday celebrated the vernal equinox, the balance of night and day, the signal of spring to come. And not a moment too soon. The weat...