Recent Articles

Recent Articles

  • An Arabic Proverb About Coffee

    This picture contains some of my favorite memories of Egypt. The picture encapsulates three things. First, there’s the newly discovered Arabic proverb, “Coffee cannot be drunk too quickly.“…

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  • Egypt and Jordan Travel Journal

    A year ago my brother Tim and I were in Egypt! As usual, my sketchbook and watercolors came along and I was able to keep track of some…

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  • Nothing Higher and Stronger

    Hello my dear readers. By now you’ve probably already seen this picture and heard the back story to it. If you haven’t, this painting captures the favorite childhood…

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  • Consistently Showing Up

    As a little kid, did doing great things always seem easy to you? They did to me. And doing little things well, excellently, always hard. Ugh, terribly hard.…

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  • Tilling and Watering

    We’ve been blessed to be able to have some small art classes this summer. It’s gotten pretty intense with drawing fundamentals, like perspective and then more pressure came…

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  • Being Bold

    Being bold requires going against the flow. It requires attacking a weakness, often directing attention to that weakness in the effort to address it. This past weekend our…

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