The person viewing your work has no idea what the scene really looked like, nor do they care..

A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance..

That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to themselves and t….

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality..

Realistically there is no limit to the possibilities. How does an artist make decisions?.

Think of the centre of interest in a painting as you would read it in a novel or see it in a movie. The crisis or climax is that point when you simpl….

The way we see is critical to understanding how others will read our compositions..

Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft... Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or so….

All artists are illusionists of one kind or another..

You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have mor….

The wide open nature of any truly creative artistic endeavor is one of its most important virtues, and one of its harshest realities. Only the most d….

The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light can be a them….

Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it..

The difficult part of the process is the long exploration and discovery of your own soul and living with the results..

Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language..

By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting..

When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking in the artist's composition. The composition is ….

Monet, Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Van Gogh and others went outside to paint for one simple reason - it looks different outside..