The morning that I started the camino it was clear and cool as I left Saint-Jean-le-Vieux and walked the 45 minutes or so to...

Leaving Centraal Station in Amsterdam, I took the bullet train to Paris. Unlike the Camino, the landscape rushed by. The train for Baritz...

Camino Reflections...On April 18th I flew into Amsterdam, and stayed at a cheap hotel in Amstelveen about a half hour from the Centraal...

I recently returned from the Camino de Santiago. The best part of travel is the experience of the new or the old that is fresh to the...

What is a landscape, really? When one considers the many styles and views and approaches, it is a difficult concept to explain. The Plein...

My mantra for the first few weeks of a drawing class used to be “Bigger, fill the page!” Students would often say that they liked to draw...

I used to survey timberland in Mississippi with my grandfather, Albert Joyner. We would walk the perimeter and traverse the center of the...

I recently watched a documentary on excavations of the Rising Star Cave in South Africa. It discussed the archeological discoveries of...

What is your favorite color? I probably go through phases where some colors appear more than others, and for a while back in the day, it...

Sometimes art is about accidents. The first painting instructor I had was the artist Malaika Favorite my sophomore year in college. It...

I remember as a child of probably around seven or eight years old, I traveled with my family to Lafayette Louisiana to visit my...

This rather generalized dichotomy can really apply to most art. For instance, in Jazz, musicians will take a melodic or modal phrase and...

In the 18th century Edmund Burke wrote a treatise On the Sublime and Beautiful, which for the first time separated out these terms....

What is Impressionism? During the 19th century there were a number of influences that shaped changes in how and why art was being...

In 2005 after Katrina flooded most of New Orleans, it took time for the water to recede. It was even longer for people to return and...

In late medieval Italy, the father of Renaissance painting, Giotto created a painting called the Stephaneschi Alterpiece where he showed...

Within my body of work I have developed several different motifs or series or collections. One such is a newer series that I call...

My studio has basically 2 rooms. One is where I work and the other serves as a gallery/storage area for finished work. As I finish work,...

And other easy questions? ...an introduction When I was in the second grade, my language arts teacher, Lydia Sneed, asked us to memorize...