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The featured ‘phone camera snapshot shows a view of the recent Palms Casino make-over which (to my knowledge) has never before been seen in the mainstream press. That’s understandable. It would send the wrong message in the Travel Section. Every vacation resort destination in the world has its off-the-beaten path areas where travelers should not…

I am about to paint-over this small abstract painting. It is a momentous event (for me), because I have kept it all these years as a memento of New York City. As a youthful artist I had an attraction for New York. Everyone should see New York. I stayed for ten years. It was never…

It started out as an uneventful gaming table scene. When I returned to it after a heated argument with a certain somebody it went South. I can’t say I don’t like the result. The art of painting is about painting, after all, not incidental scenes. Those accidental effects caused by the artist’s loss of control…

To paint as often as possible, in other words, to practice, it is necessary to paint on paper. It’s more economical than working on canvas or panel. A painter can try a lot of new ideas on paper without concern about success or failure. If it fails little is lost, and nothing tried is ever…

It was a delight to realize that Asians are an essential feature of the gaming casino landscape and, for my purpose, subject matter for art. Saving face is of paramount importance to Asians. That fact makes painting portraits of them challenging. It is said nobody likes one’s own portrait; perhaps the opposite will prove true…

Looking at the history of human civilization, and for those purposes the art of mankind, one subject stands above all, and that is Man himself. An exception is the cave so-called art of Neanderthals. The subject of animals dominates that scene, hunting being the main occupation of prehistoric man, not non-essentials such as art (as…