Thoughts to share, ideas to ponder

These are quick head studies...still need much refinement, but good exercises for keeping head and hand working....(and for keeping artist sane...).  Models are cropped heads from Posespace figures.

Just discovered that my painting is featured on the cover.  I neglected to order a copy of the catalog when entering the show and now discover it is sold out!

Many beautiful paintings are featured in this show...so nice to be part of it!  One day, I will hope to visit the Richeson School in Wisconsin.

Is white really white? Or the better question is, perhaps, what is the color white? Almost everything in this still life setup was white with the exception of the silver, the leaves on the magnolia and the beautiful blue ribbon. As white light is a composite of all the colors in the visual spectrum, I find it amazing and thrilling that what we think of as white will vary drastically depending on the light.  This composition suggests a gathering, or 'daylight soiree', mounting.  Stronger value contrasts, spots of warm light and bright highlights in the foreground give way to airy atmosphere as the composition recedes into the distance. The use of white pigment was amazingly minimal and, instead, hundreds of colored pastels were used, layer by layer, and stroke by stroke, to build up the painting to its final "white" result--one that is at once, both peaceful and dynamic.