Painting is still in progress. I spent the day painting, back to the painting in progress that I have been working on this month. I changed several things in it and… there probably will be more changes. It still needs a lot of work, but it’s getting closer. It is at this point that a painting requires trust and faith. It’s the moment when it’s not working, when it’s tempting to let it go and start over with a white canvas. But after so much work, one becomes reluctant to let it go. Experience...

Yesterday’s drawing of Mary Magdalene Today’s drawing of Mary Magdalene I was planning to write yesterday, but my mother in law visited me in my studio, and I ended up just listening to her. It was Thanksgiving Day after all, and she is someone to whom I owe much gratitude. She was the person who took care of my son when I went back to work, who took care of me when I was sick, and who took us in, the whole family and later on the two cats, when we had to leave our house. She’s always treated...

Today’s drawing of Mary Magdalene In art, patterns help us give rhythm, interest and variety to a work of art. They fill areas, they make our eyes move around the piece. Patterns repeat, take us back to the beginning, and make us stay with the piece. They are pleasurable to the eye because they are predictable. By breaking a pattern we can also break the rhythm, on purpose. Unpredictability is also pleasing to the mind. It invites the imagination to create. Sometimes we are ok just repeating...