Close Shave

Today’s watercolor experiment: I don’t know when the idea occurred to me. It was some time after I started using the rough-surfaced watercolor block. I thought, “Wouldn’t it be great to have a surface that was both rough and smooth in places?” I probably thought of this while I was shaving. I use an old fashioned […]

Working Up To It

Most still lifes have a collection of fruit, or vegetables, or dead rabbits, dead fish or any combination of them. I suppose the prerequisite for a still life is that the objects once had to be alive. Having not yet delved into the history of painting of ‘still lifes’, I am curious to know the […]