Konstantin Lizogub (Ukrainian), "A Long Time Alone." The title tells the story. Barren, gray, frozen stillness. It's not about winter.

Las Vegas is full of surprises. "A Route," by Rafal Olbinski, a Polish painter representing a great tradition of surreal, fantastical paintings and designs, often for theatrical posters. Years ago, my wife and many of my Facebook friends worked on Arkansas Repertory...

Fergus Ryan, "Sudden Breeze." Can you think of a more Irish name than Fergus Ryan? Egg tempera. The powdered pigments are mixed with the yolks of eggs (chickens, ducks, etc.). The water soluble medium lends itself to fine, opaque detail, similar to gouache. If you...

Greg Thompson introduced to me the work of Edward Rice. He's most known for his iconic architectural "portraits," as I would call them. Here is a rare landscape that I found remarkable. I've said before, composition isn't always about structure, it can be about color....

"Moonstricken Girls," acrylic by Carroll Cloar, of Earle, Arkansas. Collection of Arkansas Arts Center, thank God, or should I say Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts now? This might be my gun-to-the-head favorite painting in the whole wide world. Notice how the entire image...

"Fresh Wind," by Russian painter Bato Dugarzhapov. Everything I love about ocean beaches is beautifully expressed in oils. The light, both sparkling and diffuse. The misty atmosphere, breeze, mood, color. The primal expanse of the horizon. This design is dichromatic....

I'm grateful for the positive responses I've received from sharing representative works by artists I admire. This French painter styled himself Count Balthusar Klowsinski de Rolla (even the spelling thereof is disputed), but he's most known as simply Balthus. Here's a...

"Blueberries with Tulip and Apricot." Oil on linen by Susan Jane Walp. Her tender little still life paintings break my heart. The color, the composition, the delicate brushwork. Gentle, quiet.

Eyvind Earle painted the backgrounds for the Disney classic, "Cinderella," plus other animated feature films of the era. Later he found success as a fine art painter of imaginative landscapes built upon the color, design and pattern foundation he established as an...

Still Life by Bruce Cohen, a California painter whose work I admire. I don't know the title of this painting, I just love it. His compositions are geometric and architectural, while the mood he expresses is intimate, spacial and atmospheric. You feel as though you're...

"A Little Meadow," by Mark Blaney, an Arkansas artist now living elsewhere in pursuit of love and family. I love this painting. The dramatic light makes the trees actors on a stage.

A friend of mine in art school would look at a painting he disliked and say, "That could use a fresh coat of gesso." I thought the same of the previous version of this website. For years I've put off switching to a Wordpress blog format, but now is the time for change.