old and old

"How we alone of mortals are
Hid under quiet bows apart"

Yeats

February

Aye, you are like an ocean, And though heavy-grounded ships await the tide upon your shores, yet, even like an ocean, you cannot hasten your tides. And like the seasons you are also, And though in your winter you deny your spring, Yet spring, reposing within you, smiles in her drowsiness and will welcome your arrival.

K Gibran

I read this in high school and it stuck with me.  I don't understand much of life, especially my own life.  But I believe there is more meaning, love, and order in it than we can see.  All that souls desire, souls obtain.  

Greg Brown: Lull It By

merry christmas

"You say you will
not go with me
you turn your eyes away.
You say you will
not follow me.
I'm going to the west."  

-L Lofgren

Modigliani

night sky in Oregon

Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven: shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Matt 6:30

new portrait website.

so here's a portrait website dedicated to my portrait painting.  I'm hoping to get some more commissions from this.  Thanks for looking!  If I know you, discounts!
http://paintedportraits.carbonmade.com/

Allen TenBusschen's painting of Jenny

In the eternal quest of many artists to immortalize Jenny, Allen wins again.  I could look at this all day.  Here's his blog:  Tenbu.blogspot.com.

how to paint a mediocre portrait

draw it out

do an underpainting

finish the thing