“There’s a way to do it better-find it.” ~Thomas Edison I’m going to give you a step by step of a painting that I created. I was inspired to try something different. It started by choosing a black and white photo of which I found through Googling beach scenes. I wasn’t going to copy, but […]
What I Know About Selling Art
Service, Service, Service You can’t scrimp on quality. Presentation is important. Let your customers tell you what they want and listen. The best ones do go first, you better be willing to let them go. The more you sell the more you sell, sales feed upon each other. Customers want to purchase from […]
Chinatown and Pink Plastic Bags
Chinatown centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco is the largest Chinatown outside of Asia and the oldest in North America. The first immigrants to come to San Francisco were two men and a woman in 1848, where it continues to retain it’s own customs, languages and culture. Grant Avenue […]
Is Art Purposeful?
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.~Pablo Picasso Being an artist can be very difficult, especially if you are looking at it in a purposeful sort of way. Just being alive is purposeful and certainly taking care of my son with Down’s, although humbling at times, […]
Ernie’s
Artists have you ever had a chill while painting a painting? Influenced by the movie “Vertigo” directed by Alfred Hitchcock, I was drawn to paint a scene taken place at Ernie’s Restaurant in San Francisco. It became more enticing to paint, since it could also used as part of my San Francisco series. There […]
