A painting and creativity workshop for non-artists May 12-17 2019 What if you could connect with a sense of peace, power, and meaning just by taking ten minutes a day for creativity? What if this became a daily habit? There are profound benefits for every person in crafting work with your hands. It is not[…]

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.

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[…]

“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[…]

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[…]

and other love letters in oil. .

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[…]

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[…]