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Q: Would you talk about some of your early experiences with art?
Zebras in Chelsea A: I grew up in a blue collar family in suburban New Jersey. My father was a television repairman for RCA. For awhile my mother worked as a sewing machine operator in a factory that...
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Q: What’s on the easel today?
Work in progress, 58″ x 38″ A: Today is a day off to let my fingers heal. When I start a new painting, I need to rub my fingers against raw sandpaper in order to blend the pastel. With each layer...
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Q: To be a professional visual artist is to have two full-time jobs because...
No computer in sight A: With social media and other new ways of doing business, managing it all is getting more difficult every day. Bear in mind that I say this as someone who does not have the...
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Q: Have you ever worked outside?
Reproductions of “Cardinal Rule” (top) and “Blue Ego,” originals are soft pastel on sandpaper, 30″ x 38″ A: As a pastel artist I’ve never worked outside - with so many pastels, it’s just not practical...
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Q: At the end of last Saturday’s (September 28th) post you mentioned...
Waiting for the Perahera to start, Kandy, Sri Lanka Mending an elephant’s headdress, Kandy, Sri Lanka Preparations – planning what to do in case an elephant charges Flame throwers watching a man...
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Q: Where did you grow up and what were some early milestones or experiences...
“The Sleeping Gypsy,” Henri Rousseau, oil on canvas, 1897 A: I grew up in a blue collar family in Clifton, New Jersey, a suburb about fifteen miles west of Manhattan. My father was a television...
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