question: best days of elementary school? answer: when i got my new school supplies, including a handful of dangerously pointed pencils and stacks of white, blue-lined notebook paper. and then came those delicious first marks written on the clean, crisp page - oh the possibilities! with that level of excitement over writing materials, you can imagine my joy in later years, opening my painting and drawing supplies for art classes.
when i begin a new painting, i experience that anything-is-possible sensation again. i’m now painting primarily on smooth, beautiful wood panels. when starting a new work, i usually collect my ideas, notes, reference photos (shot by me in an earlier photo 