Stephen Bauman. Oil. Isn't she adorable? This is a stage in the process of the painting, and I think Stephen decided to remove the bird on her shoulder, which breaks my heart. Know when to stop. Stephen is an amazing artist who studied classical techniques in an...

Degrees of separation. I was in Europe in the late 1980s and bumped into the actor Donald Sutherland while standing in a queue at a ticket counter at the Orly airport in Paris. One of his best known roles was that of Vernon Pinkley in the 1967 film adaptation of the...

At Little Rock Catholic High School, in Father Tribou's English Literature class, we were expected to memorize and recite Hamlet's soliloquy, to perform it before our fellow students. "To be, or not to be..." I can hear it in my head to this day. That play has always...

2010. I stewed over this one, then hit on the idea of the planation colonnade serving as the prison bars of grief, anger and alcohol behind which Brick has locked himself. In the earlier days of my tenure with The Rep, we would work up the posters as the season...

Another theatre poster I made during The Rep's 2007-8 season. The run dates had not been settled at the time of this proof. You who are familiar with Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables" will recognize the imagery. Jean has stolen the Bishop's silver candlesticks. What...

My poster for Arkansas Repertory Theatre's 2009 production of "The Elephant Man," staged at Wildwood Park. I remember struggling with how to suggest the protagonist's disfigurement without depicting it explicitly. I wanted to picture him as a man, whose humanity...

David Gray (American), "Maple Leaf." You can find a series of videos of David making this painting. Titanium white, burnt sienna and ivory black, if I remember correctly. I may be wrong, but it looks that way to me. Basic warms and cools, with strong drawing. All the...

The first poster I made for Arkansas Repertory Theatre in fall, 1996. I worked with The Rep for 17 of the best years of my life. Grateful to have known and collaborated with so many wonderful, immensely talented people. Great memories.

Today my dear friend, the other Gary Wayne, helped me rescue my data from a cantankerous hard drive... ornery cuss wasn't giving up the goods without a fight. I have been scolded to begin showing some of my own efforts here instead of always featuring the work of...

Carroll Cloar (Arkansan), "Hostile Butterflies," acrylic. Imagine a blank white canvas before you. Then you splatter drops of diluted color randomly on the surface, an "imprimatura." Then you draw the shapes of the butterflies and the fleeing children. Then paint...

Jacek Yerka (Polish), "Strawberry Tree." Strawberries are vines, not trees, except in the world of Yerka's imagination. He loves to create indoor/outdoor spaces. I love that idea and have failed to create it in my own work, yet. Don't you want to take a seat? Make...

Russell Chatham, "Fall Arkansas River." The Arkansas River divides my hometowns of Little Rock and North Little Rock (nee Argenta). I was born in Little Rock, but grew up in North Little Rock. My bucket list includes traveling to the source of my river in the Colorado...

Daniel Garber. I love this painting. It reflects the vista I enjoy almost every day. The view from my block in Virginia Heights across the Arkansas River to the bluffs above the former quarry at Emerald Park. The contrasts of light and color are always most brilliant...

Seascape by Steve Forster. A key principle of composition is called the Rule of Thirds. Divide the frame into thirds, both horizontally and vertically. Some cameras have this grid built into the viewfinder. Place your subjects or focal points along those lines or at...

Frederico "Rico" Lebrun, Italian American, "Rabbit," ink and charcoal. My sophomore drawing professor, Barry Schactman, introduced me to Lebrun, his drawing, painting, sculpture, writing, and philosophy. I can't express the profound influence this man has had on me....