I painted this two years ago. It’s my favorite. –Eldaliz

As a child unfortunately  I did not have the opportunity to go to art school. This was not just that. I grew up in an art hating environment and was teached that ‘all art in the world should be destroyed” – can you imagine that?  So, I was prohibited to […]

I studied the philosophy of art at Purdue University Fort Wayne back in the 2000s. One of the most fascinating, intractable quandaries of art is the concept of intentionality. What does it mean to say an artist intends something? Can the artist unintend during their artistic process and later intend […]

Artist Statement I created this in 2021 on the Microsoft Paint program. *Matthan submitted this digital art to the blog last year. Unfortunately, health constraints prevented us from posting it until today. My apologies to our audience and to Matthan –Blog Editors

My mandalas are all free hand done with line sketching to create the outline and the colors are very carefully done to fill in the shading and with strokes line by line slowly done to finish each area.   The essential tremors I deal with effect the messy lines and inaccurate […]

This post has been updated and reformatted. These are submitted from the work in Open Studio each Monday.  Most of these are in colored markers.  Some you will see are in colored pencils and involve a great deal more time.  They are each designed to be relaxing.  You decide which […]

Students in Pamm Hanson’s Advanced Acrylic course, Expressive Self Portraits, worked on monochromatic self-portraits to develop their skills in composition, color blocking, and layering paint.

This acrylic abstract painting I did is how saw the Splinter Galaxy.

I took 2 classes this quarter.  Exploring Self Through Art (I may have the title incorrect) and printmaking.   As I got closer to finishing the exploration of self I realized that the print I wanted to make would work right into the piece.   Kay Feather Artist Statement I am on […]