Is this week 3 of my self imposed exile?  I've lost track. Way back in the summer of 2009 I embarked on a Painting-a-day-for-...

Okay, so I'm a bully. I made a nice lady cry recently. Several weeks ago I had a home-town exhibit at which I shared many of the daily p...

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 ...

Goodie! My birthday is coming soon. In just over three weeks, I'll turn 53 delightful years of age. It's been a pretty great 53 year...

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...

A fundamental law of thinkers-outside-the-box reared its head in my skull a few weeks ago, and it's been burbling around there ever sinc...

It's the middle of May, so it must be graduation time. Commencement addresses flowed like the Platte River in spring the past few weeken...

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 ...

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 ...

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

As I work on these Off The Highway daily paintings , I've been making a list of the specific things I'm learning. Thought you might ...

Minden Opera House, downtown Minden Ne. Right off the bat, I want to thank those of you who attended the opening reception for my solo exhi...

Jane's Pond 2009, 5x7 oil, Off the Highway Series I'm posting earlier than usual due to being out of town over the weekend deliverin...

I'm really excited about a new venture with my Canadian friend, Mavis . We're embarking on a painting adventure that may prove to be...