Paul Chikamasa Horiuchi (Japanese: 堀内 親正, April 12, 1906 – August 29, 1999) American painter and collagist. He was born in Yamanashi, Japan, and studied art from an early age. After immigrating to the United States in his early teens, he spent many years as a railroad…
Finding my voice Part 4 of a multi part collection [ Read art 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here] Do you ever find yourself creating something and then looking at it days later and hating it? I find…
Finding my voice Part 3 of a multi part collection [ Read art 1 here, Part 2 here ] I am struggling and experimenting lately; working to create a recognizable style and approach to my work. I want to find…
Finding my voice Part 2 (read part 1 here) I am working to create a recognizable style and approach to my work, to find my “voice”. The artists that i admire, can be recognized without seeing attribution. I am hoping…
Finding My Voice Part 1 When i think of the artists that i admire, i know that i can see their work and recognize their hand in the work often without seeing attribution. The way they paint and the narrative…
As a part time artist and full time slave to corporate, it is hard to keep this site, Instagram and Facebook up-to-date. Let alone try to find time for daily artwork. So i have not, until now, worried about Twitter.…
As part of the The 100 Day Project challenge, i spent the last week or so doing “portraits” of some of the trees in my backyard. These are small (4×4 inch) charcoal drawings, done with General charcoal pencils; medium and…
Starting this year with the The 100 Day Project. This year i am focusing on small B&W sketches with a theme of nature. Over the last week i returned to a favorite subject of mine; corvidae (crows, ravens, magpie and…
I am again participating in The 100 Day Project. It helps as a quick start to getting my creative thinking and exploration going for the year. This year i am going to focus on a series: Miniature Portraits of Nature…
Last year i participated in The 100 Day Project. It was a quick start to getting my creative thinking and exploration going for the year. Back to try and do it again this year despite distractions like Covid19 and a…
50 days ago i started The 100 Day Project (the100dayproject.org). A challenge to do a simple act of creativity for 100 days. What i have found is that i have enjoyed the challenge, i am creating a ton of ideas…
Are you like me, you face each day with a certain amount of numbness, diffused and hazy focus? Like you, i am in the middle of our “stay at home” order and locked in the space Covid19 found me. Feeling…
I love coffee! I once quit drinking coffee and switched to green tea; the caffeine was longer lasting and it wasn’t as acidic. But I missed the smell and taste of coffee. So I switched back. Living in the Northwest…
My wife and I spent 2 weeks in Scotland and Northern England this Spring. It was a trip we had been planning for 10 years. Things (life, work, money…) always got in the way. We finally went to Scotland in…
Late Spring and early Summer is one of my favorite times of year – the light is stronger and angled and the vegetables and fruits start to show up in the markets again. Pairing contrasting shapes, textures and genus in…
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