Take A Little Trip With Me

Lately I’ve been reliving some of our trips to Europe in my paintings. These recent works are scenes from Amboise in France, Collonges la Rouge in France, Bad Kreuznach in Germany and a bisto in an unnamed village also in France. Enjoy!

Back To The Drawing Board

I spent the weekend in a workshop called “Experimental Mark-Making In Figure Drawing.” Two days, six hours a day. Pretty exhausting. Teacher Mark Eanes was great. I regained my sense of joy in figure drawing. Here is some of my work: Using a searching, “groping” line to create a figure gesture that looks like a… Continue reading Back To The Drawing Board

Winter’s Work

This weekend we were at our Healdsburg house pruning the over-grown persimmon tree. My old friends Dennis and Melinda showed up with well-worn ladders and pruning shears from Dennis’ family farm. Luckily he also brought his long experience with those shears and helped get the job done. It made me think about the weeks of… Continue reading Winter’s Work