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• Accomplishing Vs. Being

  

  I’ve always judged my days by how much I accomplished during each one—with more being better, of course.  I always loved it when I got up early and checke... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Sense of Purpose

  

  It doesn’t take much to give me a sense of purpose.  I can create one all by myself complete with daily and weekly activity schedules. It’s giving up... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• How Strict Are Your Standards?

  

  I learned early in life that the stricter your standards, the more you’ll end up doing everything by yourself. When I was young, my mother didn’t have the time... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Missing a Cold Snap Lifts the Spirits--Surviving One Offers Something Else

  

  It felt good to miss the most recent cold snap in upstate New York—I spent that time in Florida with my sister.    Missing a cold snap lifted my... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Middle Way

  Those of us who are bipolar spend our whole lives trying to find the middle way.  It is much easier for us to feel on top of the world or down in the... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• In a Muddle in the Middle

  

  When I begin a project, I have great energy and enthusiasm for it.  I get projects underway at amazing speed—astounding my friends and family. Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• New Video of My Abstract Drawing Process

  I have posted videos showing how I make my abstract paintings, but filming the abstract drawing process was a different experience. Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Repainting a Large Canvas

  

  Lately I've been looking at my older paintings, selecting those that don't quite work. I may have thought so when I painted them, but not now. I've taken these... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Revision

  

  Thanks to revision, I can stand in front of a blank canvas on the easel, pick up a brush, and begin to paint without hesitation.   I know that... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Six New Abstract Paintings on My Website

  

  This week I put six of my newest abstract paintings on my website. That means I made a commitment to call these six paintings "finished." Some have lingered in... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Along With The Everydayness

  Along with the everydayness comes writer’s block, of which greater writers than I have expounded poetically, at length, for it is too much with us, this block.... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• New Palette Knife Painting in Red, White and Black

  

  I used a brush to cover this 24" x 24" canvas in a parchment background before beginning the foreground with a palette knife. Then I chose cadmium red to begin... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Outrageous Memory

  Recently my two sisters and I were reminiscing about a visit in the late 50’s to our Uncle George’s private swim club in New Jersey. Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Fine Tuning Two Abstract Paintings

  

  I often let new paintings sit for a while and then give them another look. Today I worked on two abstract paintings that had been hanging around the studio. I... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Can We Have Too Much Empathy?

  Empathy helps me to connect with people, and to understand what they are going through.  I can put myself in their skins and feel what it must be like to... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Background Or Foreground - Question for New Painting

  

  I've been repainting a series I called "pattern paintings" because they were basically bland backgrounds with detailed patterns of color on the surface. Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• How Deep Can You Get?

  After we finished our opening twenty-minute meditation at a recent meeting with my meditation group, a new member said that he was surprised at how quickly the... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Painting With A Palette Knife

  

  Before I began painting with a palette knife, I first used a brush to paint the background of this small canvas with unbleached titanium. Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Art and Pain

  The pain expressed through art helps us as viewers or listeners to be in touch with our own pain, to feel the beauty and sorrow inherent in life. Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• New Abstract Painting Made With A Palette Knife

  

  To make this new abstract painting, my primary tool was a palette knife, which I used to apply heavy body Liquitex acrylics. First I painted the whole 20" x... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE