I just finished a wonderful book, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters by Dr. Meg Meeker, and I recommend it to any dad with girls. As a father of daughters, it is one of the best books I have read on parenting.

I forget who showed me this quick and easy clean up idea, but I love it!

Do you ever tire of digging out the goop from the bottom of your turp can?

I’m just finishing the first day of a weekend workshop. We have a wonderful class full of eager students from around the country ready and willing to try new things and grow as artists. I am always energized by the excitement and interest in the eyes of the students. They want to learn and develop their craft. They want more.

I just read a wonderful new book for artists entitled I’d Rather Be in the Studio, The Artist’s No-Excuse Guide to Self Promotion by Alyson B. Stanfield.

Something I keep coming back to again and again is how important it is to balance the pursuit of “feeling” with the technical discipline necessary to create a work of art. Too much of one usually lacks discipline, too much of the other usually lacks feeling and becomes mechanical.