Teaching has been a long-time passion of mine. It holds the same level of interest for me as my love for my art and making large narrative paintings.
My interest in teaching was born out of first being a student, seeing the gaps in what was available, and going through years of struggle because I didn't have access to the various subjects and fundamental pillars that every student of the arts needs.
Over the years, I have come to find that to master oil painting, we need only focus on the most critical fundamentals and rudimentary skills. It comes down to breaking a complex idea, image, and composition into the basic parts, from value, shape, gesture, and line, and then developing the mechanical skills of working with paint, mediums, and brushes to grasp a handful of approaches of different textural effects and most importantly honing our observational skills.
