Sometimes a person has to backtrack a bit to go forward again. Over the past few weeks I’ve had a feeling of having lost my way with the paintings. Not that I didn’t like the work I was doing, but it didn’t feel as if it were part of anything. It felt random and uncentered. The nature of this painting and the title for it … Continue reading Art, Stuffed Shirts, Bossy People and Doing It Right
“I don’t follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.” —Raoul Dufy “Do what suits you…try to paint in the moment… forget everything you have learned…” –Jan van Oort The words of these two painters are near and dear to my creative heart. Dufy was a French Fauve painter … Continue reading Art, TEGWAR, and Sweet Songs in the Halls of Creation
My dear father-in-law had a saying about occasions when it seemed that a person was taking too much time to get somewhere or had deliberately made the trip longer than necessary or just seemed to be lost on the way or was telling some convoluted and long-winded story. “That fellow went all the way around Robin Hood’s barn to get there.” The phrase came to me again … Continue reading Robin Hood’s Barn
Art and Tulips 