An idea I hear tossed around fairly often about color is that while the morning and evening are great times to paint, during the middle of the day color “flattens out” or “dies.” I would like to suggest something entirely different: the color does not go gray, it merely changes. The middle of the day … Continue reading There Is No Gray in Nature
I drove down to San Diego recently to scope out some new locations and paint with fellow artist Tony Peters. Tony and I went to Art Center together awhile back, and have been in a couple of exhibitions together, so it was great to catch up. We talked quite a bit – the journey of … Continue reading Tony Peters, San Diego
Aspirations of Man, 22″ x 28″, Oil on canvas, © Eric Merrell You’ve probably noticed by now that I exhibit with and write quite a bit about the California Art Club. I first encountered the group sometime in spring 2000 when I took a term off from Art Center College of Design where I was enrolled (and later … Continue reading The California Art Club’s 98th Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition
Nikolai Seroff [Armin Mueller-Stahl] and Johnny [Trevor Morgan] in Local Color A new movie, Local Color, by artist and director George Gallo will be hitting theaters nationwide on November 7th. Modeled on real events in the director’s life as he struggled to learn to paint, it follows an 18-year old in the 1970’s who desperately … Continue reading Local Color – The Movie
This video was forwarded to me by my friend, artist Amy Sidrane (Click on the image for the video). It features an amazing talk by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor about her own experience having a massive stroke. Taylor describes the experience chronologically in details, and explains it in terms of both the left brain and right brain … Continue reading Jill Bolte Taylor and How We Think About Art
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