Studio Notes
First Color Panel March 19, 2025First panel. What did I learn? I learned the rose tones that can come out of three very different reds just by adding Flake White. I can see the flesh colors used by a master painter. I’ve recently …
Color Panels March 18, 2025Oil paints eventually get old and if not used, need to be discarded and replaced. I have some Windsor-Newton tubes of oil paint that are 22 years old, colors I've used but not finished out of the …
Samantha Keeley Smith March 12, 2025I was looking for inspiration for the (re-)design of my website. I searched for things like "best artist portfolio websites" and "examples artist website" and variations on that. That search turned …
Sunflower Watercolor February 18, 2025## **Photograph** I have a bird feeder post in my backyard. One of the three feeders is a cardinal feeder, and it holds black sunflower seeds. The cardinals, and sometimes other birds, tug the seeds …
Acknowledgements February 16, 2025This website is built on Hugo, a static site generator written in go. It is largely the work of a conversation - well, more of a series of thousands of questions asked, answered and then tried out …