You say 'erbs, and we say Herbs because there's a f*****g H in it!
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.
Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to be open enough that if it goes another way, then let it go that way.
Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.
When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is an art form in itself, but. . . my portrait is a culmination of elements. . . a truer image of a person than just the 'click' of a snapshot.
Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.
I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.
Aloha Earth, this is Elvis calling. You'll find me in the big house now.
Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
If you're going to change the food system, there is a lot that you, the consumer, can do on your own; but in the end, it will be very important to make changes at the national level.