Mistakes can’t be erased but they move you from your present position. —Richard Diebenkorn, from "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" To me there is no painter who more evocatively captures the essence of the California landscape than Richard Diebenkorn. Through...
Working toward that moment—what painters call the frozen moment—led me to a new way of narrative painting. Painting is about trying to get to that instant that is pregnant with some special kind of energy. Done right, there's an exquisite tension in the painting...
Recollect that only when habits of order are formed can we advance to really interesting fields of action—and consequently accumulate grain on grain of wilful choice like a very miser—never forgetting how one link dropped undoes indefinite number. —William James I...
Note: A version of this post originally appeared on the blog Venetian Red. For the past several months Athena, the Greek goddess of war, civilization, wisdom, strength, strategy, crafts, justice and skill (a versatile goddess if ever there was one) has been much on my...
