Paintings for a Scottish Pianist’s Concert Series

Paintings for a Scottish Pianist’s Concert Series

I just finished a series of eleven paintings for the Scottish pianist Kate Durran so she can have them at her 2022 concert series in Scotland and England. I first encountered Kate in 2009 for the Ruckert Lieder series, as I explained in my last post. That time I just...
Winter 2 Classes & Painting to Music

Winter 2 Classes & Painting to Music

The Winter 2 Session of classes is open for registration, and I’ve gotten a couple of reports of OPAL’s registration website being a little buggy. The bugs have been fixed, but if you attempt to register and you get a notice that classes are closed, please...
Finding Good, No Matter What

Finding Good, No Matter What

I had a phone conversation the other day with one of my mixed media students, and what I thought was going to be an informal art consultation sort of phone call, took a sharp turn almost immediately. He had just returned from a long trip overseas to spend a month with...
Wishing you a peaceful & happy Christmas

Wishing you a peaceful & happy Christmas

I came downstairs to get coffee at 6:30 this morning, and caught this peaceful scene of Mango hanging out by the Christmas tree and couldn’t resist taking a photo. Serene is not I word I normally associate with this cat, and the tree does not have any ornaments...
Ornaments & Cards

Ornaments & Cards

Last Saturday I had an ornament and card workshop at the Oak Park Art League and it was a lot of fun. I knew all of the students from previous classes and workshops, so I had a good idea of the skill levels and a bit about each artist’s style. There were a few...