“Tube painting?” some guy yelled at me from about 30 feet away at my first exhibition in a large indoor art show in downtown Toronto back in about 2002. I was puzzled by what he was asking. I am an oil painter and I don’t make my own paint. I buy it in tubes….in the largest tubes I can get. But I think most oil painters buy their paint in tubes… after all it changed an artist’s ablilty to easily…
making art In pursuit of my authentic self as an artist I needed to find out how I move naturally. Through a process of learning to make art I took the time to observe how I like to physically make art both for myself and in comparison with other artists. I describe this simply as follows: Some people like to draw or paint 🖌 Just using their fingers to move their tools 🖌using their wrists as well 🖌moving their forearms…