Wishing you all the warmth of the holiday season.

On Drawing

Alas ....

"When it comes to box office pull, work on paper and work on canvas don't carry equal weight. ... At the high, wide banquet table of art, drawing is salad, painting is steak."

-- From an article in the New York Times.

They came. They drank. They bought art.

THREE ARTISTS. ONE NIGHT, a reception on April 28 in Toledo, Ohio, was a rousing success. We plan to do it again, so stay tuned.  
Here are a few photos:
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I've spent part of the winter working on my drawing skills in a class that took me to the Toledo Museum of Art to draw the incredible sculptures there. It was a challenging and wonderful exercise ... and produced this (nearly finished) drawing of Bishamonten, a 2nd Century Japanese god. I'll post it again once it's complete.

Bishamonten
Wood, 1250-1300
One of 4 guardians at the main altar of a Buddhist temple, Bishamonten was the god of victory in war as well as the god of wealth and good fortune. The mask at his belt denotes the subjugation of evil. Quite a guy.

What you are will show in what you do.

- Thomas A. Edison

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

- Rene Magritte