This past Saturday was my last oil-painting class, and I have finished the fourth version of this landscape. My instructor assures me this is the

 I had dinner with my sister and brother this past weekend, and we were discussing (as one does) life. How do you know when you’ve

 In my painting class this week one of the other pupils remarked on my ability and interest in reworking the same basic scene. He himself

 If there’s anything I’ve learned from being creative, it’s that you don’t just stay here. Like in the song, you move on — beyond the photo,

One of the things that I am prone to (I remember now!) is green. Somehow everything I paint in oils is very, very green. I

Here is the studio in the underground S. Dillon Ripley Center at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. An, oh dear, now I remember. There’s

The first thing to do when you decide to make something? Go shopping! Only the highest and most abstruse creativity calls for no equipment at