New eBook – Process

How artists get there is just as important as where they arrive. My new ebook Process examines many aspects of my creative process – writing, drawing, painting, photography, Photoshop, iphoneography and more. Thirty-three chapters are organized into five sections – Color, Composition, Draw, iPhone, Write –...
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Engage Your Inner Coach

Refraction LX, Penola Straight, Antarctica, 2009 A voice inside my head was grousing, “There’s nothing here. It’s not good enough. You’re not good enough. Someone else has done this before. You’ve done this before. You’re uncomfortable. You’ll have better luck next time.” I’d heard it...
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22 Quotes On Art

Here’s a collection of my favorite quotes on abstraction. “Art is not a thing; it is a way.” – Elbert Hubbard “Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.” – Stephen Sondheim “All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the...
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38 Quotes On Abstraction

Here’s a collection of my favorite quotes on abstraction. “Abstraction forces you to reach the highest level of the basics.” – Alan Soffer “Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not...
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Equivalence

The idea of equivalence in photography is richly rooted in a time when photography was beginning to discover its own nature and continues to be a powerful force for discovering our own nature, which is greater than we think. Alfred Stieglitz first used the term...
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25 Quotes On Photography

Here’s a collection of my favorite quotes on photography. “Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.” – Ken Rockwell “The photographic image … is a message without a code.” – Roland Barthes “Every photograph is a battle of form versus content....
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