Musings
20TH YEAR OF ART SHOWS IN AMERICA
2022 was my 20th year of doing art shows in America. It was by far the most successful year in terms of acquiring new collectors. Some huge new collectors, and…
Read MoreTREES OF LOVE, LIFE & HUMANITY
Trees are a powerful attraction to most people. Different cultures, religions, nations, ages, and people of diverse tastes in art I find are pulled in to paintings of trees. All…
Read MorePULLED INTO PAINTING MAD MEN
A decade late, I am watching Mad Men that first aired in 2007. It is a great TV show that ran seven years and received 116 Emmy nominations and awards.…
Read MoreCOLLECTORS RESURFACE FROM AFAR
I open my booth at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday July 7th in Breckenridge, Colorado for the 39th Annual Breckenridge July Art Festival. A couple appear immediately and scrutinize all my paintings.…
Read MorePICTURESQUE SELBY GARDENS IN DOWNTOWN SARASOTA
The Selby Botanical Garden in Downtown Sarasota is uniquely picturesque, from a painter’s point of view. The colors of the water, with the reflections of the greens, yellows, oranges, and…
Read MoreI LOVE OLD JAFFA
I smile with joy when I walk around Old Jaffa, especially when the weather is glorious. Old Jaffa has 12 zodiac sign lanes. Each lane is a different zodiac sign…
Read MoreYOUNG PEOPLE LOVE VISCERAL ART
Young people love my art and buy it. They get what I’m doing. It’s visceral, not intellectual. They don’t verbalize it. They just tell me they love my paintings. There…
Read MoreMUSIC SOOTHED SOULS – THE BLUES SPILL ONTO CANVAS
Music soothed our souls as teenagers. The fears, the melancholy, the hormones, the mad crave for love and sex, the exams at school, the social tensions, pains and pains of…
Read MoreART COLLECTORS TEMPTED BY THE DANCE OF WISDOM
I don’t know if everyone is like that, but all my life I’ve looked up to and tried to learn from, and tried to emulate giants that I admired, loved,…
Read MoreTHE POETRY OF THE OLIVE TREE
Dror Galili is an acclaimed Galilee nature photographer. He is an old personal friend of Tzlila’s family, in the Galilee. I have painted, through getting his permission, from several of…
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