News from the studio

Paper making at home with children.

Apr 24, 2020 | News from the studio, Pulp painting, Uncategorized

This video shows simple steps to make paper at home with children. Paper making is the perfect creative activity for home schooling or during the pandemic quarantine.

My summary of Leonardo’s Last Supper

Apr 11, 2020 | News from the studio, Uncategorized

Did Adolf Loos’ Ornament and Crime kill the artist/architect relationship?

Apr 2, 2020 | News from the studio

In his 1908 manifesto Ornament and Crime, Adolf Loos laments the use of ornament as a means of architectural decoration at the expense of simple lines and plain white walls-walls he associates with Zion, the holy city (reprinted in K. Smith, Introducing Architectural...

The picturesque comes to America, and George Washington gets in on the act

Mar 22, 2020 | News from the studio, Uncategorized

Thomas Gainsborough, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, c. 1750, oil on canvas, 69.8 x 119.4 cm (The National Gallery, London). George Washington arrives home to Mount Vernon, Virginia. Despite overthrowing the British Government in the Revolutionary War, early settlers such...

Finished-Resilience, (2020), 40 x 40 x 4 inches. Mixed media painting.

Mar 15, 2020 | News from the studio, Uncategorized

Resilience, (2020). 40 x 40 x4 inches. I named this painting Resilience to emphasize the metaphors I see within the subject of rocks and water. The rocks demonstrate resilience as they stand up to the pressures of the crashing waves. The waves in turn are resilient...