Life is fragile. This tenuous state is particularly evident in the smaller living creatures around us. When I first decided to use butterflies as my subjects for a painting series, I ordered 12 Painted Lady larvae from a science company. It was November, and I wanted to have a physical reference to work from as well as to study the life cycle of the subject...
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Painting Study: Woman in a White Dress
A 20 minute painting study of a woman in a white dress.
Woman in a Pink Skirt
On a snowy winter afternoon, this January, I painted a small, three-hour work of a woman reclining.
Q&A with the artist (part 1)
Recently, someone asked to interview me for a project of theirs, and I considered how some artist appear to others as aloof or distance. There’s often a lot going on in our minds (intellectually and emotional). I’d take a moment here in my blog to share where I am coming from when I make my work...
Patterns in Flight show at Asbury University
My alma mater, Asbury University (formerly Asbury College) has asked me to show my butterfly series, Patterns in Flight. The show will be on view from January 15 until March 25...
Patterns in Flight encore reception
If you were unable to make it in August, you have another chance to view the Patterns in Flight butterfly paintings art show. This Friday the butterfly series, Patterns in Flight, wil
Review: A Working History of Things to Come
"Unwound", oil on Fiberboard
I spent an hour today taking in the show, A Working History of Things to Come, works by Eric Hudgins in Wug Lak
Works at Oranje: Contemporary art & music event
My three latest butterfly works, After Thistles, Fluttering Cosmopolitan, and Cynthesis will be on display this Saturday, October 19th from 8pm to 2am at Oranje, a contemporary art & music event...
Friedrich: Traveling Exhibit part II
More thoughts on works by Caspar David Friedrich from the Hermitage.
The Dreamer sits on a window ledge of a ruin. He is not inside the ruin nor is he outside the ruin. Inside the ruin are dead trees, while outside life thrives. The dreamer looks sideways, neither out of the ruin nor into the ruin. Is this not true of a dreamer, of someone who lives half in the metaphysical realm
Paintings at Indianapolis Visual Fringe 2009
I have three of my butterfly paintings in the 2009 IndyFringe Festival. Thistles, Fluttering Cosmopolitan, and Cynthesis were mentioned in my prior post, Trio of Painted Lady Butterflies...