It’s not for sale. Why not? Here’s why. Sometimes you’re working on something and you make a discovery but you don’t know exactly what the discovery is. In other words, the outcome is pleasing but you don’t know how you got there, or what the elements of your successful execution were. Or why, exactly, this[…]

7:50 Ten minutes and I really mean it, two hours of reading ahead for a 10 am meeting I’m dreading, and I really don’t even want to get out of bed. It’s the daily commitment that makes me do it, no big pie in the sky magic. It’s the routine, a schedule I follow even[…]

Sketching is an immediate response to what you observe. We sketch to learn. We sketch to record. We sketch to study and we sketch to play. There are as many approaches as there are people. There’s continuous line sketch. And sketch with wash. When I look back at my sketchbooks – London, Siena, Florence, Big[…]

Join Erin Gafill for a day of painting in Big Sur! Free for Carmel Art Association members! There is a $10 fee to park in the lot. If you prefer park on the highway level where safety permits and walk down to the kiosk at the parking lot entrance. We’ll meet up at the main[…]

New works in oil will be shown at our upcoming Thanksgiving Weekend Open Studio. November 23, 24 noon to 4pm at the log house at Nepenthe Refreshments will be served.

Every morning I write for ten minutes before getting out of bed. It’s a ritual. It’s a routine. It’s a creative habit. It starts the creative juices flowing, it documents my mind’s daily wandering, and it allows me to move on to the day ahead feeling that I’ve accomplished something. it is one of my[…]

I love Kelly Medford! I love her paintings.  I love what she writes about painting them. I love that every painting has a story, and every story usually has a painting too. I first met Kelly through Facebook.  I saw her work, saw that she posted daily paintings and wrote about her process. I admired[…]

and other love letters in oil. .

“Why Paint? Why live?” Gregory Kondos Allied Arts Cambria presents The Art of Now, a painting demo, Slideshow & Talk, with award winning artists Erin Gafill and Tom Birmingham this coming Sunday November 4 m, 2pm-3:30 pm. Erin will kick the event off with a 20 minute painting demo, followed by a slideshow of inspirational[…]

Ten minutes. Every day. For 30 days. We write and post and share feedback and develop the habit. The writing habit. It’s not rocket science. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Carving out a piece of your day – even ten minutes – for your writing life can seem almost impossible sometimes. Its hard to[…]