“Life’s hard. It’s even harder when you’re stupid.”  John Wayne. As we crest a new year, it would do us all good to acknowledge we have much to learn. We’re all in our patterns and routines. I bet 85% of what you’ve done already today is roughly the same as you did yesterday … and the day before. That’s not a bad thing. But it’s a big world out there with many flavors to lick. No matter our age, intellect or experience level, our brains are muscles in need of fresh and ongoin

Inside the Mind of Picasso, acrylic, oil crayon and resin on wood, 24″x24″, 2003 There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot. But there are others who transform a yellow spot into the sun. Pablo Picasso “I don’t know how to look at art.” More than a few people have told me this over the years. At my shows. At galleries. At museums. I’m always confused, because telling me you don’t know how to look at art is like telling me you don’t know how to have sex. What