I am working on a painting of an old man sitting on a bench in front of a calvin kline underwear store
I am trying a new style.. drippy/scraping of color.. its pretty fun..

Sunday was a great day for everyone involved with the The Business of Art Scholarship project at Mission Federal ArtWalk this past weekend, sponsored by The Frame Maker and taught by me utilizing the curricula from the San Diego Finishing School. Jessica worked hard and connect with hundreds of people personally.
Not only did Jess get [...]

Two new series that I have been developing. These are the finished paintings so far
I will post the new ones as they come along
Humans in Nature, Out of Nature are reflections of our environments today.
Out of Nature:  This series focuses on ordinary objects and situations and highlights their commonly unoticed beauty
This Series was [...]

Another significant step in the Business of Art trajectory is to develop an “identity” for the artist This isn’t a pen name or made up alter ego, but rather the beginning of an identification process for the artist, an identification of “who” they are and “what” they’re about (at least this is how [...]

I posted a broad conceptual outline of the Busines of Art mentoring program on the San Diego Finishing School site a few days ago, and wanted to post a quick update of what Jessica and I have gotten done together so far in fulfilling the plan.
I have obviously been doing the writing about the project [...]

One of the career development tools we are able to utilize for Jessica this spring in the “Business of Art” scholarship program is the ability to create a printed product for Jessica’s growing audience.
One of the features of the SanDiego Artist Services project is the ability to create high quality reproductions of any [...]

I spent a couple of hours with Jessica this week in her shared studio space at the SDSU School of Art, talking with her about development of paintings an dselection of work for the actual ArtWalk booth
I’m very impressed with the thinking behind Jessica’s series of oil paintings, especially when contrasted with the liberated “whatever [...]

Here is an excerpt from the first blog entry Jessica crafted on the blogspot site we started with.
“One day in my painting class in SDSU. I got an assignment that required me to look up a contemporary artist: Jenny Saville and to create a painting that incorporates some aspect of her art. I started work [...]

This is the first post of Jessica’s new branded, self-published online portfolio site, www.jessicasiemens.com.
Mission Federal ArtWalk, The Frame Maker and John Hiemstra of the San Diego Finishing School have joined together this spring to create the Business of Art Scholarship, a mentoring project designed to serve student artists emerging from the San Diego State University [...]