Idea No. 157: Redo a Renoir
the idea: while my students are busy being impressionists, make a quick version of Renoir’s Dance at Bougival When I sat down to teach my last after school class for the …
Idea No. 76: Drip Paintings
the idea: make paintings using squeeze bottles and gravity I actually can’t take credit for this idea, it was thought of by someone else in the education department at the MFA, …
Idea No. 71: Doodle Painting
the idea: combine my doodle designs with my abstract paintings I’ve been a bit blocked lately when it comes to my oil paintings. I’ve gone into the studio and looked around …
Idea No. 52: The Artist at Work
the idea: make a portrait of yourself making something I have always had this love of artists who make paintings of themselves/others painting or what in the art history world we …
Idea No. 42: Paintings from Ketchup Bottles
Applying paint in new ways is one of my favorite things. In college, I was having lunch in the cafeteria with a group of friends when I accidentally squirted ketchup …
Idea No. 37: Clear Gesso
Here’s yet another of the many ideas I’ve had about my knitted canvasses: Use clear gesso so that the color of the yarn is the first color in the painting. …
Idea No. 33: Up Close and Personal
While I was lying on the floor, listening to ilyAIMY, and outlining a series of orange drips in yellow I got distracted by the textures of my own paintings. I …
Idea No. 22: Figure Drawing a Painter
Although drawing and I have a rocky relationship, I have always loved figure drawing. Particularly gestural figure drawing done with charcoal (what a surprise, I know). When I first moved …
Idea No. 8: Applying to Shows
During my first year in Boston, I didn’t spend nearly as much time as I liked doing art. Now, that’s changed. Since the summer I’ve been spending at least a …