As cooler weather comes our way I am trying to shift off garden design to designing works in the studio. I often start with something already in progress and go from there into a new series. In January and February I made 20 small “portrait”collages formed from a composite of features. They are all 5…
I’m often asked, “How long does it take to make this painting (or collage or drawing)?” The answer is complicated, because each piece may take merely days or weeks. But sometimes years are spent putting together a single piece of art or a series of related pieces. And, even though a composition…
Collecting materials, tools, and ideas is the first step. Whether an artist’s studio is neat as a pin or heaped full of brushes, tools, clay or wood, disorder characterizes the creative process. A chaotic jumble of ideas spill out of the brain and become organized in drawn or painted forms. Tubes of color sort themselves out,…