Paint Your Joy!

Kim Carlton interview Posted on December 8, 2013 “I like to paint. It’s more of a compulsion actually. Even when...

Rapt Romance, which was selected to show in the 85th Grand National Exhibition in NYC by the American Artists' Professional League and j...

This is a detail of Westward Vision, an older painting that I posted when I first started blogging. There has been a natural evolution of ...

  This is one of the paintings that will be in the Power & Peace show in a couple of weeks.  It's also featured in the "Sma...

I wish there were a way to just give you the Outdoor Painter Magazine so you could see what the wonderful writer/editor Bob Bahr wrote up ab...

I made stuff up in my imagination about this woman as I painted her and when I was finished with the painting, I thought that it would be...

My model from Monday became a flapper on Friday. Tesa did a marvelous job this week posing for artists.  Modeling for artists is much diffe...

This is the ad in American Art Collector magazine, the November issue, which just came out.  They also included our show in a section cal...

The weather is perfect right now.  In Houston, the weather is always a little on the perfect side for some people: never too cold in the win...

  Some works call for reverie, others invite revelry.  This painting was the latter sort.  It was large for me and required standing an...

Maybe you recognize this little girl from Follies & Foibles, published in July. She suffered some insult but was not permanently inj...

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...