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"When is it done?" is an issue that most artists struggle with. Two major elements of the artistic temperment - flow and what could be described as its opposite - a compulsion torwards perfection - are so often at odds. While inspiration may come in an instant, an eloquent expression of that inspired moment generally requires considerably more time to make. Often times I work on something and decide it's finished, only to come back days later seeing nothing but flaws. Other times I see something close to perfection when I revisit a rough sketch I set aside early in the process.  read more »

George Grosz, New York 1932
Water color painting is very old. The first colors with which men began to paint were water colors. The early fresco painters also employed a kind of water color-a tempera color-which was made principally of egg and a species of cherry gum.  read more »

George Grosz, Berlin 1920
The art of today depends on the bourgeoisie and will die with it. The painter, even if unaware of it, is a cash factory, a machine for producing profit, who is used by wealthy exploiters and aesthetic jackasses so they may invest their money more or less profitably and be called, therefore, patrons of the arts. Art is, to many, a kind of flight away from this 'vulgar' world into a shining sphere where they may fantasize about a paradise free and clear of civil strife and factionalism.  read more »