Tool tip

Painting straight lines with my smoothest ruler serving as the finger slide. The brush stays about a half inch away from the ruler, which guides each hand gesture. This works surprisingly well...

Wet in wet

Love painting watercolors in the pouring rain...

Art openings

Great art openings last night in Culver City, and at the LA Municipal Gallery in Barnsdall Art Park, where the Robert Williams / Juxtapoz show opening was a full-on rave...

Happy Holidays

No birds were harmed in the painting of this watercolor...

Putting sushi to work

I've heard that ginger is good for cleansing the palette. We'll see...

X-mas time

Working on this vaguely holiday-themed watercolor painting...

Way back when

TBT: A long-ago and inauspicious beginning for my first ever oil portrait, painted some time around the late Pleistocene, if memory serves. I eventually got better at this...