Back to Painting (Jan. 29, 2025)

I've taken a long hiatus from doing art. I never know why. Yesterday I cleaned my studio which was very dusty. Even the large canvas I've had sitting on my giant easy had have the settled first wiped off. So now I've just got to get in there and start getting back into my happy place because that's what happens. I have a large oil landscape commission but I'm going to warm up again with just my watercolors. 

Today I'm watching Cindy Barron paint the foreground of a coastal landscape here in California. Her technique is wonderful and she achieves such great mark-making using old raggedy brushes she's beat up. Great for texture and grasses, really just about anything. She loves Shiva Orange so of course I'll buy a tube since I so love orange. I saved the YouTube video demo. 

https://www.youtube.com/live/k5ygbt0SwJE?si=thr37xM3aQ8kPuDe

Why Do I Believe?

I believe in Christianity 

as I believe that the sun has risen, 

not only because I see it, 

but because by it I see everything else.

~ C.S. Lewis

George Carlson's Perpetual State Of Wonder

"We’re forgetting, because we’re becoming so anesthetized by gadgetry and virtual reality, how to let awe seep into our souls.”