You can accomplish a heck of a lot using toothpicks, India ink, transfer paper, and paper scraps, as I found out in an encaustic painting workshop.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about beauty and ugliness.

My father worked as a laborer at the Bethlehem Steel Plant in Lackawanna, NY, for 30 years, It was a dirty, hard job.

By the time I usually travel to Penland, in late August, it is well past the time to see bales of hay in the meadow facing the dining hall. But this past summer, I went in late June and was taken with the vista of hay bales nestled in verdant green.

I’ve been interested in linoleum block printing for quite some time, since getting some luscious books on printmaking techniques,

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how one’s home environment can greatly affect one’s creative energy.

Big juicy color. Who doesn’t love it? This particular palette is one of my favorites. I used it to paint a somewhat abstracted barn in a weekend workshop taught by Brenda Belfield at the Art League School in Alexandria, VA. Actual size is 36″ x 24″

In the late 1980s, I attended the Oxbow Art Colony to take a painting class. I had never worked in oils before