Working in A New Way

I came up with a new concept which I taught in a recent workshop. I call it P.P.P which stands for postage stamp, playing card and postcard size paintings. This is how it works: I begin with looking at my subject and then making quick pencil postage stamp size compositions. I make sure each of these little compositions has different dark, light and medium values. Then I take my favorite sketch and draw it with pen and wash in a playing card size. If I like the playing card size sketch, I then paint it postcard size in color. Sometimes I paint two or three postcard size paintings trying out different color combinations. Usually I stop at this point but if I have a post card size painting I really like, then I enlarge it to whatever wall size I feel like and paint it one more time using my postcard painting as a guide. I think I like this new method.........

Old Photo of Me from France Workshop

While looking through my photos from the workshop I taught in France this year, I found another photo of me I thought you might enjoy seeing. Somehow in France during the course of a weeklong workshop one discovers new ways of looking at themselves. I must have had this particuliar photo made into a postcard to send home to my love ones.

What's Your Sign?

Here I am on my recent trip to the Cotswolds. I thought it would be nice to have a picture of myself to remember this workshop. How surprized I was to discover when I saw the photo that I was seated under such an interesting sign.............