It has been busy after Tessa Paoli interviewed me and Meiying Wu took the photos for this Richmond Confidential article. They came by my studio at the right time, because I had had a batch of paintings return from the photographer. The journalists met me when they worked on an article for last fall’s Califas show, and had followed …

I just approved the prints of one of the three plein air landscape paintings I made while in Puerto Rico. Desembocadura del Rio de Loiza is a gicleé print of a 18 x 24″ oil on canvas. In a few days, it will be shipped to the contributors who selected a print of a Puerto Rican landscape as their …

Sometimes you can’t finish a portrait because the conditions are less than ideal. And sometimes you make glaring mistakes. In this case, my friend Jose was very tired and kept falling asleep. I did not have very long to get a likeness and when he was posing his head kept moving (he was minding the dogs). Even before I …