On this Winter Solstice, temperatures have been somewhat typical here in Michigan. December always seems to be a bit of a roller-coaster ride of weather here as winter starts to assert its dominance. Not quite the winter wonderland yet, but trees have certainly...
Notes from the Woods
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Wall art spike during the pandemic
One of my regular keyword research tools is well-known Google Trends. It helps in relative comparisons of one phrase vs. another. While it doesn't give you the actual search volume of a term, it will give you a comparison on a scale over time. It can tell you, for...
Martian River
A question I often struggle with when working with abstracts is when it comes to the name. Do I label it with what it is, or what I imagined it is? Words accompanying any art can be quite suggestive. And while part of me wants the viewer to interpret what such...
Getting off the path of least resistance
Netflix released an interesting documentary this year called "The Creative Brain" by neuroscientist David Eagleman. It asks some really thought-provoking questions about creativity and dispels some myths. It was filled with so many gems of quotes from a variety of...
Does Provenance matter?
A few years into selling prints, I began to ask myself this very question when it comes to my photographs. Provenance being basically a historical record of the origins of the image, and if printed, the media and process used to produce the print. If the...
Styles come, styles go
My wife Lisa recently treated me for my birthday (Go Capricorns!) to the exhibit that is just closing this weekend at the Detroit Institute of Arts: Monet to Dali. It is somewhat hard to describe the feeling of seeing the actual brushstrokes of some of these masters...




