Monthly Archives: November 2012

Painting: Knowing; knowing everything; knowing how to make ‘this do that’ or ‘that do this’ is no substitute for passion and inspiration.  Nor is it usually the path to such.  It is the thing we hang on to for some … Continue reading →

We’ve established that color communicates mood, emotion and space.  It has a push/pull effect that can make a colored surface pull forward or push back. It mixes in the eye to make new colors. A colored ground or a thin … Continue reading →

As we hone in on the impact of color we hopefully get closer to true expression by using our own feelings to dictate its use. Wassily Kandiinsky,  the Russian painter who sought to define abstract art in 1912 wrote On … Continue reading →

A tale of a childhood discovery– “I realized that to make an R all I had to do was first write a P and draw a line down from its loop. And I was so surprised that I could turn a … Continue reading →