You can set yourself apart from other artists by sending handwritten thank-you notes in the mail.

Every Thanksgiving I try to write something about gratitude . This year I want to remind you of the value of writing a note, addressing an envelope, attaching a stamp, and sticking it in the mail.

My friend Cynthia likes to say that a handwritten note in the mail “blows people away.” It’s true.

Expressing my gratitude for you.

Aren’t you delighted when you fish out a personal letter from a pile of junk mail? And

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Acrylics are a fascinating painting medium.  I never truly understood how versatile and enjoyable this medium was until I began working with them exclusively.  I would like to share a number of tips that I have learned over the years. I hope you find these helpful. Thinning Acrylic Paint One should be very careful when [...]

When things seem to get a little stagnant, I like to thumb through my favorite art books or browse online videos for inspiration. When I find links that inspire me, I like to share them. I was excited to find this one by Claudine Hellmuth demonstrating the use of metal polish and magazine pages to […]

In the comments section from my last post, I was asked how I choose papers to go into a collage composition. That is such a great question, and I’m not sure whether or not I can answer it adequately, but I what I can say is that it’s very intuitive for me. Starting a collage-making […]

Sotheby’s Smash Warhol Auction Record with “Silver Car Crash” – artmarketblog.com

Sotheby’s has continued this week’s incredible run of contemporary art auctions with their November 13 Contemporary Evening sale which produced a new world auction record for Andy Warhol of US$105,445,000 and the highest total of any auction in the Company’s history.

The highlight of the US$380,642,000 sale was Warhol’s monumental  8 ft. by 13 ft. masterpiece “ Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) ” which surpassed its US$60,000,000 a

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Most days it’s not easy to get one’s critical left brain out of the way and just respond to materials and colors and patterns. But for some reason, this past weekend I was able to do that in a quick session creating several collages. Using my hand painted papers, I worked as fast as possible, making […]

Christie’s Breaks Art Auction Record with Francis Bacon Painting – artmarketblog.com

Christie’s New York has set a new world record for the most valuable work of art ever sold at auction with Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies of Lucien Freud” which the auction house sold for US$142.4 million during their November 12 Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sale.

The sale also set a new world record for the highest sale total in art market history of US$691.6 million, smashing the previous record of US$495 million which was achieved

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Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson’s New Collaborative “Moon” Project – artmarketblog.com

Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson have launched a new collaborative project entitled “ Moon ” that invites viewers to “mark the passage from nothing to something and from thinking into doing” by making their mark on a giant digital moon and

The collaborative online platform was launched on November 9 during the Falling Walls conference in Berlin at which Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson were guest speakers, Ai Weiwei via live video from his in

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I am having so much fun with my current stash of hand painted and doodled and printed papers. This new collage is one example of the fun. My Collage to Go basket has evolved into my go-to stash for instant collage gratification. In it I keep my current favorite papers, large and small sizes, and […]

This painting makes me think of fall — lemon yellow maple leaves, a sky that is slightly overcast, brown leaves on the ground, and some of the brilliant oranges and yellows that are still clinging to the trees. I still marvel at the incredible colors, which have been spectacular this year, even though last weekend […]