Digital imagery and Acrylic Paint

Recently I gave a free online webinar on Digital Imagery and Acrylic Paint. Golden Artist Colors has made some fabulous new products to allow you to print on acrylic paint skins. Sound crazy? Yeah, watch the video and get back to me. Way cool fun! By the way, this video is nearly 30 minutes long so get a cup of coffee and sit back. It's like a free art lesson!

How to s-t-r-e-t-c-h your paint!

Here's a short demo on how to stretch your paint by adding gel. Wahoooo!

Auction news glub, glub

The fine art auction market was sober recently as witnessed by the dismal Sotheby's auction. Read the entire story here.

I'm very pleased that the Calder sculpture made a good showing though. It just goes to show, good design is never trendy and always in demand. I especially loved this paragraph:

"One of the few moments when the salesroom came alive was for an early sculpture by Calder. The artist is one figure who manages to shine during bad times. A standing mobile fashioned from wood, steel and string — “Ebony Sticks in Semi-Circle” from 1934 — was thought to bring $1 million to $1.5 million. Five bidders, including Eli Broad, the Los Angeles financier, went for the sculpture, which sold for $3.5 million to a telephone bidder."

Not a shark in formaldehyde in sight!

Creating works on Paper

Here's a short video that shows how some of my paintings on paper are created. Enjoy!

Here's a couple from the new Italia Series, acrylic on paper.

I was inspired to name this series after listening to Chris Botti's CD "Italia". Check him out

How big a role does music play in your studio? For me it's huge. I listen to a wide variety of music and often work on a series based on a piece of music. I'm likely to have a Johnny Cash piece playing right after an aria by Placido Domingo.

Music truly does calm the savage beast, but it also wakes up my creative beast!