As many of you know, sometimes I go back to a painting and make revisions, but more specifically....additions. Let me begin by explaining that at a very early age I was fascinated with Disney animation.  Not necessarily the Disney stories, although I did like some a lot, like "Fantasia," "Pinocchio" and "Sleeping Beauty.  I was more fascinated in how these were created; particularly the method of painting animation BACKGROUNDS, and then placing the moving characters on top of these.  More than

Just packed and shipped out 9 paintings yesterday, with one more in the wings.  So today I am varnishing some older pieces that I never got around to, and catching up on this blog before I start something new. I think, at least for me, it's very important to remember to keep challenging myself and trying new things.  Creatively and otherwise!  It's a principle that works across the board.  More on that later. Only last week, I came across a photo that a friend posted on social media, and I

When I was about 10, my brother and I were invited to stay the night in my great grandmother's house in Mantee, Mississippi.  Her "house" was a tiny little airstream trailer parked down the hill from my uncle's house.  BY OURSELVES! I can't remember the situation as to why she wasn't going to be there with us, and I seem to recall she was going to be staying that night with my uncle, but what really matters is we were over the moon about it.   Her trailer was SILVER.  And everything was so