Sketchbooks

Sketchbooks

Self portrait 2/27/23 Faye sleeping Central Park Concert ’86 Winter has resurrected and with the snowy cold, I am doing what I have always loved, drawing in my sketchbook. This recalled to mind some of the older ones I used to carry. New York had great art...
My Studio

My Studio

I have a new studio. The workplace, inspiration, sanctuary, hub and haven for my creative life is soon going to be in an outbuilding art shed at our new home in Tiverton, Rhode Island. It isn’t large, and I like that. It’s beside the chicken pen, and time...
Why Do I Draw?

Why Do I Draw?

Drawing has been around for a very long time. This is apparent on cave walls and rock faces that have preserved pigmented drawings, petroglyphs and stencils of human hands from many thousands of years ago. [I was incredibly lucky to visit the ancient caves at Pêche...
Shedding light on Tiverton painter Peter Dickison

Shedding light on Tiverton painter Peter Dickison

Southcoast Today Art Beat: Artist profile by Don Wilkinson Golden Light, 2019 by Peter Dickison In the name of full disclosure, Tiverton painter Peter Dickison and I have known each other for many years, since September of 1979 to be exact, when we were both freshman...
Art After Dark at the Museum 

Art After Dark at the Museum 

Last night the museum highlighted several of the classes that are taught at the museum’s Coleman Center. My Portrait & Figure Monday class had a great time drawing and painting the main gallery and invited museum guests to take a shot at drawing the portrait...