“I used to only want to be a painter. That was it for me. I ended up at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and I was in this little cubicle in our big shared studio one night around ten o’clock. I was painting a three-foot square of a […]

Music always helps me when I get depressed or stuck or whatever. So put some tunes on! ✌🏼

A new museum is opening in Shoreview, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis, that will display the private art collection of an art lover and philanthropist named Gerald Cafesjian. This includes the above piece by Dale Chihuly, who along with his wife Leslie Jackson Chihuly, are supporters of Path with Art. […]

I am thankful that the cold of April and May is behind us. Summer was just waiting for the 21ˢᵗ to make it official.

“The blazing Romanticism of this gold, green and purple visionary scene belies any misconception that Monet simply painted what he saw or was a relaxed celebrant of leisure. Even the morally fervent Victorian critic Ruskin might have been moved if he’d seen that medieval church glowing on its hilltop in […]

FROM THE SEATTLE TIMES“IT PROBABLY SHOULDN’T come as a surprise that Ella Shepard Bush got lost in the fogs of art history. The same has happened to many other women artists, before and since. But in her day, Miss Bush — as she was always known — was at the […]

Titled Sailing, or Sailboats in a Harbor, this is a pastel on paper attached to a board by artist Jonas Lie, who lived from 1880 to 1940. I love using pastel. You can do a lot with the medium, as evidenced in this beautiful work by Mr. Lie. I encourage anyone […]

This group has just kicked off its 2022 Summer Challenge. I sometimes come off as an abrasive jerk. (I am a natural curmudgeon and hermit.) So I like to remind myself to be nice to people, or at least try. This non-profit is one of the ways I do that.

More news involving The Beatles, which Angela wrote about a few days back. Take a look. There are some cool prints by a great artist.

”Mixing her father’s negatives from the Great Depression with pictures taken on her iPhone, the master printmaker created a series of photopolymer gravures that expand the concept of family memorabilia.” I find this fascinating. “Photogravure belongs to the intaglio family of printmaking. It consists of capturing an image on a […]