Opening Day at the Show This past Friday, opening day of the show, I stepped into “Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience,” in Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI, expecting to be immersed in the work of Vincent Van Gogh. I have to say, it was not quite what I expected, [...]
Commissioned Landscape: Kayakers on Indigo Lake, oil on canvas, 20″ x 16″ Just before sunset the neighbor’s yellow kayak slid through the water away from their dock next door to us, heading toward the far side of the lake. I sat on my dock sipping a glass of wine [...]
Optical illusions have always fascinated me, especially those involving the illusion of 3 dimensions in a 2D space. I adored my brown Bakelite View-Master. I sat for hours looking at immersive nature scenes and cartoons brought to life. My favorite was of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. Flora, Fauna, [...]
Fishing for Ideas Where do ideas come from? How does a realist artist translate the world around her into works of art? I thought you might find it interesting to see a tool I used for coming up with an idea for a painting, so here I will describe [...]