Claude Monet 1865 Oil on canvas, 130 x 181 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow The Picnic (the original is 6 by 6 meters!) was unfinished and ...

Bye bye, Winter. You've worn out your welcome. Go home, Winter. You're drunk. Winter: the skunk at the lawn party. Times up...

Happy 329th birthday to Johan Sebastian Bach. And thank you.

What I especially like about this one is the nifty little outdoor picnic hibachi that the lady in pink is working with. Can't you just s...

This is another small piece, 5" x 5", done with pastels, on 320 grit UArt paper. It's hopelessly overworked, in my opinion. Bu...

This is a very small sketch on UArt 320 grit paper using mostly the new set of Girault pastels that arrived last night : the Brilliants .  S...

This is a land art sculpture in Egypt. It is the most exquisite object I've seen in some time. Click on the Project Page for more views...

These Bento Ladies are wonderful. Where are they? This seems to be a social outing along a wild river. Did they bring the dais with the...

It's remarkably difficult for me to find source landscape scenes (that I can steal/commandeer) that don't have central flat, calm, a...

This one is 5" x 5", cropped. It started with a much large nearby tree on the left side. But as I worked the dark green limbs and ...

Happy 258th birthday to the miracle that was and still is Mozart. [This a portion of a portrait painted by Joseph Lange, Mozart's ...

This is a smaller one, 4" x 4". I like the red glow behind and inside the trees. I'm not sure what it is, but I like it.

Adapted from  Is This Art? (2010), Maciej Ratajski

This is 5" x 5" and is another in the series of daily (well, almost daily) pastels.

This is another in the series of daily pastels. This is 5" x 5", which seems to be a optimum size both for speed and for avoidi...

This is one of a series of small pastels that I am planning on completing every day.

More monotypes today. My goal today was to try to achieve some depth. To leave the 2D realm behind and see if I can make pieces that you c...

This is another of my gelatin monotypes. Fun with geometry! The gelatin print process is an interesting exercise in envisioning the resu...

These are monotypes made with my brand spanking-new gelatin printing plate. Great fun and the potential to make a whopping big mess. ...

This is about 7-1/2" x 9" on textured board, done with pastels. Here I chose a board that was lilac-toned and textured with ra...

Delightful two and a half minute long vid. Watch THIS.

This is about 6-1/2" x 9" on watercolor paper prepared with a radical texture and pastel ground. My plan on this one was that ...

This is a treasure.  I found it on Casey Klahn's website. Thanks again, Casey!

This is about 9" x 12" done with pastels on sky-blue tinted sanded paper. It's inspired by the plein air paintings of BJ S...