An Expat Painter in Paris; the Pain and the Passion

Excerpts from the upcoming book

Feeling Joy While Painting

Finally able to overcome the negative self-talk and enjoy the process of painting

In the In-Between at La Lutece

A foul combination of heat and jetlag woke me up at 4:30am. It was still dark out, and as I opened my shutters the partiers across the...

100+ answers to the question, "What is the purpose of art?"

I had the thought again. It's usually a variation on, "What makes you think you're good enough to be a full-time artist? And what purpose...

The one type of person who can stand in front of a popular painting as long as they want

On my quest to see all the Rembrandts in the world I've been to the Mauritshuis, (pro tip; it's pronounced "Mawr-its-house) the...

An acid trip of colors without drugs

Sometimes you don't need any "outside help" to see a rainbow of colors on the human face. I began my first conversation with my...

Three Ways to Find Joy

When I got onto the bus to go from Hoorn to Medemblik, I asked the driver to make sure I was on the correct bus. An older, white-haired...

Rembrandt's Swagger

We don't know how deep his voice was and we can only guess how tall he was, but in his day, he was a rockstar. I think he swaggered. Look...

In person; there is no substitute

It's not fair to "View of Delft", really, that the curators of the Mauritshuis (just learned that it's pronounced "mawr-its-hyse") hung...

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