Anatomical Deviations

I've written about learning the rules and breaking them before - Today, I just wanted to share with you how I address human anatomy. Admittedly, I wouldn't be able to draw or paint a human if I didn't do it the way I do, and if you think you're having troubles painting humans, maybe you're …

Art as Therapy (part two) – When Painting Leads to Meltdown and Other, More Important Things

To begin, I have to say finishing this one was quite difficult, as was starting it, and writing it, and I realized that's because i hadn't really sorted my own feelings on the subject. I mean, like, how can you write when you don't know what to write? How can you feel when you don't …

Art As Therapy (part one) – When Things are Good.

At times, when I write or speak of art, I speak as critic/historian, other times, I speak as a viewer or fan, and other times I speak as an artist - this is one of those times I speak as an artist. Doing so, I risk revealing some very personal things and even a paradoxic …

HEIRONYMUS BOSCH – In Defense of what is Magic and the Roots of what we now call Surrealism

I've finished up polishing an old essay and am pretty durned happy with it. I'd have to guess that in our era, most of us know something of this elusive Dutchman who for some reason only came upon our popular radar less than 50/ years ago. Whether you know anything about the man Hieronymus Bosch …