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Looking Inward
In the portraits of the grandees of history, the important and self-important, their eyes are not looking inward. They’re glaring at you, demanding your…
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Stories
Story telling in art goes back to the caves and probably beyond. Those first pictures and other graphic symbols were not graffiti or decoration, they…
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Back to the Present
Do you ever find yourself looking back to the present? Memories drift from the past but update themselves in a strange way. They can hibernate for…
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Enigma
Water moves. It shimmers, reflects and distorts. It can leave either a photostatic or fluid image on your optic nerve. It’s a vision circulating among…
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Explosive
There are any number of ways and reasons to make art. It can be prim and decorative. It can soar with dramatic flourish. Some art is emotionally…
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Floating
Some paintings are a seductive opening to an inner world: imagination. It’s like reading the opening lines in a work by Edgar Allen Poe, Ray Bradbury or…
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The Paint Moves
The Loose Placement of Color
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PTSD and Art
How trauma and PTSD can be the stepping stones to Supernatural Art
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