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Recently I have heard sermons which infer that animal rights activists like myself are worshipping animals, or at least putting them before other human beings who are created in God’s image (which animals are not). I find this line of thinking insulting and totally untrue, even if it is said by the pastor of a [...]

Studio housekeeping is a mundane topic, but important. When I started painting Ezy Boy, I  could not remove the tops from some of my tubes of oil paint. The paint had dried and hardened. There are several ways to open them. You can draw the flame of a match or cigarette lighter over the tops [...]

I have been so absorbed in this painting that I have neglected other responsibilities. I get away from it for a couple of days and balance my life a bit. I highly recommend this to artists and writers like myself who easily submerge in an alternate universe of their own making. When I return to [...]