You never know while logging 10,000 steps a day when you are going to see something truly breathtaking. This morning as I stepped outside my door for a walk to the grocery store was one of those mornings. It was 7:22 AM. The very air had taken on an orange-suffused glow. There were long strips […]
Congrats to our Friends in Yukon!.
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The Detritus of Working Class Lives.
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I was honored to have a piece accepted into the 47th Annual show of the Pittsburgh Society of Artists. The piece is called “The Detritus of Working Class Lives.” When I go through my collection of found objects picked up while walking (and walking and walking) the streets of my neighborhood, they scream “sociological statement”
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More and more I think jurors are becoming the “drive by” variety. Get in, judge a show, and get back on the road before you speak to an actual artist. My opinion is that a juror should embrace the opportunity to interact with the artists, accept an invitation to speak if asked, and generally share
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A friend asked me to teach a Plein Air Painting class over two years ago, and I agreed. It got postponed several times, during which time my painting skills got rusty. Luckily I had enlisted the help of another artist to co-teach with me. The class finally took place last Sunday, and it turned out to
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I had an interesting experience yesterday. My “main” art organization, Pittsburgh Society of Artists, had a weekend event called ARTday. The idea was to go back to our “hippie” origins in the the 1960’s and the very first show the organization had. It was in the parking lot of a bank on a Saturday, and
There was a piece I did about a year ago which I was never quite satisfied with. I took another good look at it and decided to cut it apart, re-work it and make three new pieces. Now I have three that I really like instead of one that didn’t quite come together. The biggest new piece
