Paint Your Joy!

Oil Painting 101, The Foundations has just begun. This class will cover materials and procedures, drawing and design, the practice and ...

I am just emerging from the studio and seeing that it is going on 2 in the morning. One of the things that I'm trying to do in my life...

One of my favorite painter peeps and I went to a Civil War reenactment by the 3 rd Texas Cavalry Regiment last fall. What an exciting and...

It’s hot. Even when it’s only 95-100 degrees, the heat index has been up to the 120’s here during the day and it’s a challenge to paint ...

Two big challenges face us when we work. Tackling them requires a pre-existing plan, wisdom and courage. Many, many things are happenin...

I have a painting that I'm getting ready to sell and several paintings that are being prepared for a big solo show that I have coming up...

Today, my husband and I were studying Dark Matter and Dark Energy, which together make up 95% of our universe ( 25% and 70% respectively),...

20x16 I met Chelsea at the Salon International a couple of years ago and have been so very fortunate to have had her as a regular model all...

This is the first post of the new Paint Your Joy! I just finished a book by Dr RC Sproul: The Holiness of God . The last chapter was ca...

  The first day of the Clarksville residency, Denise and I were forced to stay indoors because of the freezing cold rain. And by "for...

The Color Wheel. Different from the charts in that it is not a value study at all, but a look at the spectral sequence that results from t...

We are more than half-way into our adventure in the Oil Painting Foundations at the Woodlands Art League. We've gone from a concentrat...

The Lennox House is "the residence" of the Artists in Residence program, sponsored by the Red River Historical Society in Clarks...

  Colonel Charles DeMorse is known as the Father of Texas Journalism, having established and run The Northern Standard (later called The S...

We had a wonderful eight days in North Texas but it was very, very cold. Still, we managed to get in about one painting a day; I'll po...