I’ve seen lots of paintings in the last few weeks: three juried group shows and an exhibition at the Long Beach Museum of Art. It’s been good; it sent me off on my current realist exercise and it’s been sort of encouraging. I feel a happy understanding of the language of paint. It is good […]

Duane Kaiser, the talented creator of the now-famous Painting A Day blog/movement, has a series of nice time-lapse movies of his beautiful still life technique. Enjoy the one below and check them all out here.

… and madass mountain biking coach Andrew Lucas has been keeping an eye on The Night Note from Denver. This weekend he e-mailed to wish me Happy Festivus and was generous enough to tip me to his very cool Photoshop “woodcut” technique. (He’d seen the sketches I’d done for Mike’s solar co.) He writes: […]

It was 1965 and my mother needed a diversion. She was 25, an artist living in a low-rent Baton Rouge apartment with a four-year-old, an 18-month-old and an asshole. My father was a graduate student at LSU who spent most of his days at the lab, but somehow he still found time in his […]

It can be a blur. All the good, all the bad, all the uncountable details of just getting through the day, month, year, decade. Looking back, it gets harder to pin a tail on this memory or that. I find it harder to say “this is the way it was,” with the kind of certainty […]

the web practicing a little creative procrastination, I ran into these thoughts on the subject at Powazek. Today, I split my procrastinating time between noodling a re-design for CaliforniaAuthors.com, fooling around with the LibraryThing, exploring the vagaries of Google AdSense and learning to work with my bitchin’ new macro lens. None of that was on […]

Really nice work and more every day. And, the beautiful A Painting A Day.