El Sueño de la Mariposa (The Dream of the Butterfly) in San Jose, California Last month, I put the finishing touches on a 140-foot-long public mural commissioned by the City of San Jose. This community mural can be tracked down…
You now have one more reason to visit downtown Los Gatos: to check out the new mural in town! Pick up your morning brew at Los Gatos Coffee Roasting and then wander across the street to brainstorm on a title…
The Heritage Museum Watford City, North Dakota I was commissioned by Le Roy and Sheryl Lillibridge to paint a landscape mural featuring the badlands of North Dakota for a museum in Watford City, North Dakota. I loved my time in…
Montclaire Elementary School Cupertino, California The best response I have heard to the complaint, “I don’t have any good ideas!” is this: “Show me your bad ideas.” When we terrified of the possibility of trotting out a few bad ideas, we…
As an artist, it is a great privilege to highlight less visible stories. When I first searched for images that would inspire a farmworkers mural (using keywords like Napa Valley harvest, grape pickers, etc.) most of the images Google returned were some version…
Welcome to spring! The weather is warming up, and I am beginning to thaw out from what feels like a very long winter. The birds are chirping, the news is promising, I’m starting to imagine a world where I can…
More. Every creative impulse that is followed leads to more creative activity, and a more creative life. I have recently been working my way through the classic but perennially useful course on creativity, The Artist’s Way. I first did the course…
Virtual Book Launch Party! Somewhere in March, I realized 2020 was going to be a different kind of year. I pondered how I might be of service as I followed stay-at-home orders. I calculated that since half of my work…
Hi Mural Friends, This year has been full of surprises. For example, it turns out, the world as we once knew it can be completely rearranged. School, work, travel as we knew it: all transmuted into a zoomingly distant memory. I…
How’s Your Zoom Background? At this point, we are all too familiar with the Zoom drill: turn off your background music, turn on the lights, close the door so the dogs and kids don’t disrupt your meeting. Some of your…