Over the next week or so, I want to start discussing my plein air painting in detail. I hoped to start today, but I will be overhauling...

The concept of plein air is easy to grasp, but it seems that no two artists do it the same. The idea is simply to paint outside, which...

Last year, I had a surgical lumpectomy. It was a pretty large, cancerous lump in my chest, and for the first month, I was too weak and...

When I came back to painting three years ago or so, I discovered a world of plein air painters online. Previously, I had painted for...

I’ve painted most of my adult life, although it has been an on and off again kind of relationship.  Frankly, despite the serious illness...

This has definitely been a strange summer. I am still fighting cancer through chemo treatments, but I am also painting a lot more than I...

I see I skipped the June entry in this blog. Well, it's been a very trying period. What made it so bad was that my cancer returned in a...

When I started painting many years ago, I did not think that there were problems that needed to be solved.  And yet, every step of the...

Because I’m a plein air painter, I need equipment that will work outdoors.  When I was very young, and painting portraits, I used a...

It’s been seven months since my surgery, and for the first time since then, I have been able to go out and do some plein air painting. ...

For the first time in six months, things are starting to feel normal again, but there is a lot I have to do to get ready for the spring. ...

I hope you’ve had a Merry Christmas, or what ever holiday you chose to celebrate.  We have now begun a new year. For me, I had begun 2023...

Its taken some time but I’m just about done with my recovery painting project.  Better yet, I’ve started three other paintings.  Doing...

Since my operation in early August, I've been in recovery mode. The operation was on my chest on the right side. That had made painting...

The last two blog posts I wrote explained not only the serious medical situation I was was in, they have also pointed out my inability to...

Its been a little over a month since my operation. I am feeling better at this time than I thought I would. I spent close to a week in...

Today is blog day for this art website, but it’s also the day I am going into the hospital to have a tumor removed from my chest. It...

Summer is here, and I’m outside painting. I started my work in late spring, after making plans on what I wanted to do. So what follows...

Spring was late this year. I didn't start painting until mid May although I had a number of ideas lined up. I broke the ice this year...

Well, I missed my April deadline for posting a blog, and now I missed it in May, also. This is not so much intentional as it is careless....