If I am using a sable, it may start off as an eight or seven, but it's a double aught by the time I'm done. I hate brights... they have no use. You might as well buy a filbert and take the scissors and cut off half of what you paid for.

I'm drawing in my head pretty much.

If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

I try to think and design in color.

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.

It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.

If I am using a sable, it may start off as an eight or seven, but it's a double aught by the time I'm done. I hate brights... they have no use. You might as well buy a filbert and take the scissors and cut off half of what you paid for.