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Bella is a memorial portrait, Blue is a gift commission. Both are acrylic on canvas. Blue is 12″x12″ and Bella is 12″ x16.” They are about 75% finished and require additional touches for highlights and anatomical balance of perspective. I always reference photos where the dogs convey a feeling of happiness with bright eyes and…

So-to-speak. On week two for the community havoc of After-Math-ew recovery phase. Most questions still revolve around “are you dry?” or “are you in your house?” If your answer is “no”… then your life has a realm of complication and intervention that warrants a long pause ready for a bit of genuine listening. There’s no…

Plein Air painting has been a tradition in St. Augustine since the area became “civilized” with hotels, electricity, and basic european-style luxuries.  Henry Flagler supported artists when he built a section of the Ponce de Leon hotel to include a Northeastern wing of artists studios in 1887, inevitably hosting our town’s first art walks (more…

from all sorts of places.  What get’s your creative juices flowing? Maybe some travel (staycation, backyard adventures), the sunrise or the sunset, artsy blogs (busymockingbird.com), images at Instagram, 140 character poetry on Twitter, Nova and science, art history, local speaking events…well the list just goes on and on to infinity and beyond.  The only real ingredients…

it’s hard to know what that is, isn’t it? Choices.  Do little, or do nothing.  Delimmas.  It’s easier to just go to the movies.  Yup, did that.  Saw HTTYD 2.  Wow.  The whole movie revolves around animated action, story, endearing voice script and lock-your-eyes-with-dragons-expression.  Can you really look into Toothless’ eyes (when they have those dilated rectangles and…

some of us just brush each other the right way, some the wrong way.  When speaking of creative endeavors, it’s best to surround yourself with those who do the brush thing right.  Whether it’s painterly skills or people skills, it all matters and it’s all connected.  Who you are as an artist is directly connected to…

go hand in hand.  The Vernal Equinox, March 20th, marks the calender for “equal night,” meaning the night is equal to the day.  That doesn’t last long though…as our days start to  stretch out a little longer. Spring will fast become Summer. This morning The Anonymous Society of Artists met at the Lincolnville Community Garden…

Many different symbols have meaning to those who are celebrating good things in their lives.  My favorite anecdote of the week came from Heather Hamel and a student’s description of the Bronco’s team being the “horse heads.” Maybe you are your helmet.  American symbolism. Aside from horse heads, there is abundant symbolism in Hinduism with…

Hot topics for the month of January, 2014.  Let’s start with the inspirations of Spring. Anyone else have confused plants in their yard? Budding blooms for the middle of January?  My show-stopping Bougainvillea plant was frozen-wilt-brown-down to the branches, but my Bird of Paradise which is 12 feet away– has a new bloom.  It’s as…

That’s the pressing question for one who feels relatively Anonymous yet still has the good opportunity to sell stuff.  Today there is an article in the NYT, Art section on page 24, by Jesse McKinley, “Fake Artifact by an Unknown? Sold!” It explores the luck and obscurity of these points in regard to Bruce High…