Daniel Garber (American, 1880–1958), "Springtime in the Village", 1917. Oil.

Thanks to everyone who responded to my new web store. I'm so grateful for your support. I've added this print, "Five & Dime Blues," from the 2001 Osceola Heritage MusicFest poster. The twin girls were just a vision in my head. I don't know what it means or from whence...

You know... when a child presents an artwork and it's terrible, you don't want to hurt their feelings, but you don't want to lie, so you say, "That's interesting." That's what Kevin Kresse said about my face, "Interesting." Not kind, not handsome, not manly....

"Yellow Chair..." Scott Prior. My first assignment in Stanley Tasker's freshman drawing class was to visually describe to an alien from another planet how to make a shoe. I failed miserably. My brain wanted to know why in the hell ET might need to make a human shoe?...

"Kavanaugh Night," Tim Jacob, acrylic. I can't mention nocturnes without featuring the paintings of my good friend and childhood neighbor, Tim Jacob. Tim has created a series of night scenes around Little Rock and beyond, most of which are wet with rain on pavement....

One of the great challenges for painters is a nocturne, a scene at night, or any scene in which the dominant light source is inside the frame. James Taylor sang... "In my mind, I'm gone to Carolina Can't you see the sunshine? Can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't...

"Peasant Burning Weeds," Vincent van Gogh. A tonalist canvas from Vincent, not the explosion of color and thick brushwork we expect. From his letters to his brother, Theo... "Do our inner thoughts ever show outwardly? There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one...

Drawings from "De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body)" by Andreas Vesalius, et al. Ink on paper. I was in Dallas over this past weekend to see my daughter. Visited the art museum and took in a stunning exhibition of Flemish masterworks. "Saints,...

Untitled (Ram), Lawrence Deen Golden, my big brother. Acrylic, 1978. My brother was immensely talented. Painter, photographer, guitarist, drummer. (I can claim three of those traits, but I'm still after the guitar thing. Help.) Our father subscribed to magazines of...

"The Marriage," Gregory Hildebrandt (American), acrylic, 1972. The famous "Brothers Hildebrandt," Gregory and Timothy... I've admired the work of these men since my adolescence. They're most famous for their illustrations for The Lord of the Rings, the Sword of...

"Loitering in Mystery," Rick Stephens. Landscapes aren't easy, they're difficult, if you really LOOK. I've followed this Stephens guy, and he has his own way of doing things, of seeing things. He speaks his own language, but he never stops translating. My dear...

Will Barnet often portrayed people in their homes with their pets, usually cats. Cats are arguably the most aesthetic, the most fierce, yet the most vulnerable and endearing of our furry domesticated companions. When a beloved feline goes missing, our hearts bleed. My...

"Road Into the Valley, Moonrise," Eduard Steichen, 1906. Another love of mine seldom attempted by most painters... a "nocturne," a painting of a nighttime scene, preferably absent artificial light. (Nocturne is also a musical term.) If you can, view the image using a...

"Adoration of the Artist," John Lasater IV, oil. John is a northwest Arkansan known for his award-winning plein air landscapes. But here is a studio portrait. So soft and quiet. All low chroma, tertiary colors. Compressed value range, middle tones with no bright...

Rico Lebrun (Italian/American), "Crucifixion," ink, 1958. "After Christ was taken down and the Golgotha scaffold scrubbed with whitewash, someone discovered that without the irrelevant trivia of blood and pain, the Cross made a composition of 'significant horizontals...