Vissi d’arte, vissi d’amore, non feci mai male ad anima viva! / I lived for my art, I lived for love, I never did harm to a living soul! - from Puccini's Tosca I've collected four youtube videos of spectacular divas (Caballe, Callas, Price, Mattila) singing "Vissi d'arte" on my tumblr here. Coincidentally two of the divas are…
Category: paintings
“Woman with Hedgehog”
She only cared for the sea when it was lashed to fury by the storm, and for verdure when it served as a background to a ruin. Everything must needs minister to her personal longings, as it were, and she thrust aside as of no account whatever everything that did not immediately contribute to stir…
On family and friends
This year I wanted to connect more with family and friends. I'm usually lazy at keeping in touch, but with practice I'm getting better. I still don't call my mother as often as I should but I'm working on it. I believe that every person is a gift. My twitter and facebook buds make me…
The Conspirators: The Artist and Her Beastly Muse
There is a monkey whispering in my ear. Is it a devil or angel, perhaps an alter ego planning dark or brilliant deeds? It's nothing but a conspiring hairy muse. Shakespeare certainly thought it rascally, chiding the idle and absent muse in Sonnet 100. SONNET 100 by William Shakespeare Where art thou Muse that thou…
Young Pierrot as Hunter
I worked on my new little Pierrot intermittently over the course of a month. I knew I wanted an austere background, gray and atmospheric but I didn't know how to give form to the original idea. Almost through serendipity, I happened on a lovely and very gray George Inness at the American Impressionism show at the New…
The Gambler
New painting available at Meyer East Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. Somehow two different friends on two different occasions said he looks Russian. Maybe he is. He's not actually a card sharp.
Charles and the Wondrous Journey
If you like the poem, check out this YouTube video recital. "A Lullaby" by Alfred Lord Tennyson Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dropping moon, and blow, Blow him again to me;…
La Primavera
"Spring Quiet" by Christina Rossetti (1847) Gone were but the Winter, Come were but the Spring, I would go to a covert Where the birds sing. Where in the whitethom Singeth a thrush, And a robin sings In the holly-bush. Full of fresh scents Are the budding boughs Arching high over A cool green house:…
Successful Paintings – what makes a painting have “it”
Recently I've been exchanging emails with a friend and collector about having that "eye" for spotting good paintings. How do you know if it's good? Is it a gut reaction? The answer is yes, of course. As a painter you know when you need a red color here or when the composition is lacking or…
Wing Clipping – revisiting a theme
New painting now at Meyer East Gallery in Santa Fe. This young winged man is the second time I've painted "Wing Clipping." The first was in 2007.
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