Heart’s Release: A Girl, a Sky, and One Red Heart
A small figure at the edge of the water lets a red heart go into a coral and turquoise sky. A close look at one original soft pastel painting.
Giving a Painting
Thinking past the gift card. What makes an original a good present, what makes it a bad one, and how to choose for somebody else without guessing.
Choosing the Right Size
How to judge what a wall can take, why a small painting is not a large one shrunk, and the measuring trick that settles it in about two minutes.
Lion and The Lamb
An original soft pastel in which a lion is painted out of sea and sky, standing beside a lamb. The two oldest opposites, in one quiet picture.
The Animals
Horses, a young cow and a giraffe with her calf. Three original pastels, and why fur and hide suit this medium better than almost any subject.
One of Each: What an Original Actually Means
There is exactly one of every original on this site. What that means in practice, how a print differs, and why I sell both without apology.
57 Chevy: The Fin
An original soft pastel of a 1957 Bel Air tail fin in turquoise and cream. The best of the vehicle paintings, and the one with the least car in it.
Water and Sky
Three coastal pastels and the one problem they all share: how to paint water without painting every wave.
How a Commission Actually Works
What happens between asking for a painting of your own and hanging it: reference photographs, size, what pastel can and cannot do, and where it can go wrong.
Bear: A Mountain Wearing a Bear
An original soft pastel in which a grizzly and a mountain landscape occupy the same outline. Snow peak, dark pines, a low gold sun and a teal lake.