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

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

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

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

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

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 determined, hardest working, capable and creative will make their way to earning a good living by their art.

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